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by jwebb99 3558 days ago
Strange. A few days ago, I announced my bookmarking service (http://paperbin.co) and it was barely noticed. Yet, Shaarli has 32 votes within an hour.
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Self-hosted open source projects tend to appeal to a different set of people than a commercial competitor to an established service.

Also, HN is weird.

Yours seems to be a SaaS and Shaarli seems to be an open source product you can self host.

That might be why this one caught more interest.

I'm a long time shaarli user and the reason I use shaarli is to get away from services such as yours. I trusted del.icio.us got bitten and will never make the same mistake again.

paperbin.co is useless and pointless to me, it is contrary to how the internet and the web is supposed to work, it is closed source crippleware with no possibility to self host, it offers no features that has not been around in competitors for years.

This is a reason why I ignore your project but am excited to participate in discussion about shaarli and wallabag.