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Refind — Worth your attention
Refind helps you read more of what’s worth your attention.
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Brad Brooks
This looks absolutely brilliant!
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I've been using Refind for the past few weeks, its been helpful in allowing me to save and find pages I think are informative.
Welcome, Product Hunters! For three days only, skip the line and join before everyone else. We’re very excited to be on Product Hunt! It’s super early but you’re the audience we had in mind when building this so we’d love to know what you think!
HOW IT WORKS
Save great links that will come in handy in the future. Discover what others save. And then find everything again when you really need it – for example when you later search for this topic on Google, Refind highlights links you or your friends saved (optional).
POCKET?
We love and use Pocket. Refind is complementary and you can connect Pocket to Refind. Pocket is a reading list, Refind is an archive. Pocket is to-do, Refind is fire and forget. Here’s how we see and use the two in combination: https://medium.com/@refind/refin...
DELICIOUS? OTHERS?
Delicious pioneered social bookmarking in 2003. We’re taking up on where they left off. And here’s how we believe Refind fits into today’s landscape: https://refind.com/home#difference
WHY?
Here’s why we’re building this: https://medium.com/@refind/this-...
We really hope you like it! Again, it’s super early but we’re going to work on this for a very long time so we’d love to know what you think! I’ll be around here and you can also reach me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dominikg) or at dominik@refind.com.
Thanks a lot!
Dominik (Founder)
@dominikg I don't see Delicious in your landscape, can you say more about how you're "taking up on where they left off"? Also: can we import our old bookmarks from Delicious or other services?
@eliservescent Thanks for your interest in this. Delicious pioneered social bookmarking in 2003 but innovation seems to have stopped a long time ago. We currently don't see a place to save and re-find the best links you discover on the web, and we want to change that. We believe it is a very basic and useful metaphor, and much different from reading lists like Pocket, etc. And yes, you can import your browser bookmarks but also from services like Delicious, see https://refind.com/settings. Does that answer your question?
@eliservescent You've probably seen these, but just in case... Here we describe why we're building it: https://medium.com/@refind/this-.... And here's how we see it in relation to Read Later: https://medium.com/@refind/refin....
@dominikg We might be interested in letting Refinders import their finds and following's finds into our dashboard. I don't see an API but, is that coming soon?
I see my home screen has popular content, but what about an easy way to just see the links I've saved?
Maybe when user clicks inside of the search bar, you display the available filters? That was my expected behavior..
@3lehman That's a good idea, thanks! Currently you need to click on the user icon on the top right, and then on your name (two clicks, but one-click would be nice ;).
@dominikg Looks like my Disconnect Chrome extension (https://disconnect.me/) was hiding the profile button on the right-hand side. Makes much more sense now. Thanks!
@seq23 You can auto-import your Tweets (https://refind.com/settings/import). That imports all links you Tweet about. If you want a filter for favorites only, I could do that... depending on much you pay ;-) No, seriously, I've heard that once before (I think from @chrismessina) and I have a Trello card for that. Waiting to hear it a bit more often before implementing it, ok?
@seq23 A long time ago you asked for an option to auto-import links in Tweets you like. I've just gotten around to implementing this: https://refind.com/settings/import. If you haven't used Refind in a while, you should have a look – the product has improved a lot, see http://refind.productmap.co/
@dominikg i like how you bothered to explain & illustrate how refind fits into our workflow! they make me realise (much more quickly) how useful refind could be. in particular, i now have a more refin(e)d experience with Pocket, because i can keep it exclusive to those articles that i want to read soon.
@leejien I assume you mean the flow chart in https://medium.com/@refind/refin...? Glad you like it! Many have told me that's too nerdy/geeky, but I like it because it depicts my actual flow. I thought a long time about how Refind fits into the landscape, whether there's too much overlap with existing tools, etc... and I came to the conclusion that I need it – I hope others too :)
@dominikg This looks very interesting, I love the Pocket & Refind combination workflow you shared -- I find that I'm saving a lot to my Pocket account and it's become a replacement for Delicious but it's not the best for that, and that breaks down the Read Later workflow. I'd like to try it!
I've known @dominikg since his days at Wuala (which he sold to LaCie). I've also been in active communication with him over the launch of Refind for several months and his tenacity, responsiveness, and care about the details reminds me of so many early Web 2.0 app launches. As he and I discussed the need for Refind and its best use cases, I came to really value his intended direction: to help separate the day-to-day wheat from the chaff, and provide an enduring archive or the best and most useful links *over time*. In an age where we're all washed in a digital deluge, it's nice to finally have a life raft to climb into.
@chrismessina Thanks a lot, Chris. I really want to get this right and your help over the last months has been enormous!
@dominikg @chrismessina I remember loving Wuala back when it was only in German (pre-Dropbox era)! It's exciting to see you on to other great things! I can't wait to use it.
@gioismeyo There is! https://refind.com/settings (Save Button). Does that work? And it will soon be in the Safari Extension Gallery too.
I've been using Refind for more than few months now, and I can't emphasize enough the SPEED of this tool is unreal. I likely can't count the number of bookmarking tools I've used to date but that said, Refind would crush most. @dominikg has been nothing short of a customer obsessed product founder.
Love this, was actually half-heartedly working on something similar a while back. The main differences were:
1) requiring a description for each link (enables thoughtful response, dis-incentivizes posting 100 links/day); and
2) automatically compiling the links posted each day/week by people a user follows into an email newsletter for the user.
basically Benedict Evans' newsletter, but for everyone: http://ben-evans.com/#newsletter
@cjl49 Thanks for sharing this, Calvin!
1) I was thinking about that too but I want to make it low friction when saving links and let the algorithm manage the ranking/de-noising.
2) There is a weekly digest which shows the top 10 best links from the people and tags you follow (opt-out). There's even a daily digest (opt-in) which surprisingly many people have turned on :) You can turn on/off in the settings: https://refind.com/settings
I really hope you like it. You've given this space a lot of thought, please let me know if you miss anything.
'Discover the Web' sounds familiar... I should have trademarked that ;) https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
@webtech Btw: I've changed the H1 (`Discover the web`) a number of times but this one stuck because it's short and generic... Hm.
@dominikg We can share the tagline! And dotmos is a bit different - we search 20+ sources, including social media and a few other apis, all blended to create what we call a 'Discovery Engine.' Do you have plans for an API? Your curation concept would make for a great source on dotmos... Let's chat: rod@dotmos.com
@webtech Yes, we have plans for an API! :) I'll ping you once we get there...
This reminds me of the long-gone startup Lookmark, which I really thought was an amazing bookmark tool: https://www.crunchbase.com/organ...
As a writer, what I would like to see is an emphasis on more than just the techies out there. This kind of fits this bill but I think its limitations make it kind of tough to jump into on a daily basis. This, on the other hand, is really good at collecting ideas and tying them all together—the social layer Pocket has always been missing, in a way. I also like that Buffer is built in. Cheers!
@shortformernie Didn't know Lookmark, thanks for the info. Please let me know if Refind becomes useful for daily usage!
@tnsrig Thanks! All feedback very welcome. If you have specific things that I should change urgently, please let me know. On the app side (iOS/Android): It's not native yet (except for the Sharing extension), it's just a HTML5 v1 at this point...
@dominikg to tell you the truth I noticed that, I would say that the "save" "email" "twitte" and "more" buttons should have a bit more call to action feeling,make them look like button,also you have a lot of empty space right from the avatars why only display two? And last but not least the "saves" indicator is very quiet if you know what I mean that's one of the main focus of the app!
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@tnsrig Thanks for the input, I'll think about it. Trying to keep it white/simple/minimalistic in general.
Been using it for a few days and love it. Only missing bit for me is option to make some links private. Generally happy to share links but not to the degree that I feel publicly profiled.
@psturrock That's great to hear, thanks. Private links: That's feature request #1 :)
@irvingtorresyc Reddit is more about news. Of course you can save news on Refind too, but it’s more about classics – links with long shelf lives, links you want to find again later. Also, Reddit is not for keeping/archive. We try to describe how we believe it fits into today's landscape here: https://refind.com/home#difference
Been playing around with this for a few days now :) - quite like it.
They have an integration with Pocket too
You can read the story behind building Refind here but I'll let @dominikg tell us more here :)
Question: How does the implementation of multiple feeds on Nuzzel 2.0 effect your plans with Refind? Do you see it as an alternative/something that can work alongside Nuzzel?
Are you concerned people will see this as "another place on the web for articles" when there are many sources out there atm?
@bentossell Thanks, Ben! Nuzzel is about news. Of course you can save news on Refind too, but it’s more about classics – links with long shelf lives, links you want to find again later. I try to show the difference here: https://refind.com/home#difference
I have been using Refind for a few months and have seen how it has been evolving and shaping up into a really useful and nice product. Over that time it has become part of my routine. I see something interesting, something that I think could help me later, something that I want to add to the body of knowledge I have easy access to, I store it in Refind with one click.
The biggest part for me is not the repository of knowledge that I am building though - it is the social aspects of the product. A new tab extension allows me to see the links stored by people I follow and the quality of those links has been very high - although I have to be diligent with unfollowing noisy people that do not fit my interest spectrum. The Refind stream has drastically reduced my Twitter usage as I just get my daily dose of inspiring articles and content there.