[raghav_nautiyal]

Hello HN,

I am a 14-year-old developer from Mumbai currently studying in grade 10.

After being frustrated with not being able to share and collaborate on links with friends and family, I created SeeLink, a platform to simplify sharing and collaborating on links with friends and family. After 3 months of work, I have created a complete platform that simplifies link sharing and collaboration, allowing you to seamlessly share, save, and collaborate on links. I built it with Python and Flask, used Bootstrap for the front-end, and am using Heroku for hosting the site. There were a lot of technical difficulties I faced and had to wade through a lot of uncharted territories, but I'm super excited to finally launch SeeLink and get it out to the world! Also, let me know if you have any feedback, suggestions, or questions. Feel free to ask me any questions about how I built the site, and I'd be happy to answer them.

[jpnelson]

Congrats on the launch! This looks like a great project and I'm sure you learnt a lot from building it.

Some first impressions:

1. You used Pinterest as an example link in the guide, and it wasn't immediately clear how this was differentiated from Pinterest. If you could think about why it'd be better to use SeeLink rather than an existing tool, I'd be more interested in it

2. I think the red block colour you're using is too much (#FF0004). I'd consider changing it to a lighter red, or even white background with black text (it'd be easier to read)

3. It wasn't clear to me what the bookmark icon does – haven't I already bookmarked the link by adding it to my board? Is this feature for further filtering?

Overall, great job! It looks quite polished and I didn't see any bugs.

[raghav_nautiyal]

Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments! I have addressed some of your points below.

1. It looks like it wasn't a good idea to use Pinterest as an example link, haha. I think Pinterest is mostly a social network for discovering interesting links from the web, this is more of a tool that people would use to share important links with each other, instead of messaging apps (which is how most people I know share links with each other).

2. Hmmm, I've got mixed feedback on that, but I think the best thing to do would be to change it to white with maybe black or red text in the foreground.

3. You're right, the bookmark icon is for further filtering, something you'd use if you're browsing someone else's board and like a particular link you'd want to read later.

If you don't mind answering a question of my own, do you think you'd actually find a use for this and actively use it?

Thanks a ton for all of your feedback!

[jpnelson]

Makes sense! I think I probably won't use it much yet, as the example you mentioned (messaging apps for link sharing) works pretty well, and often they also have a view where you can just look at all of the links sent. Some ideas of what would make it more likely for me to use:

* The ability to integrate with those messaging apps so I could use SeeLink, but then send out those links to friends via different messaging apps. I often send out the same links to multiple people on different platforms, it'd be neat to be able to track who I sent it to and catalogue them that way

* A feature like related links, or some form of automatic categorization of links based on tags.

I think Pinterest is great for discovery, so if this is more about link categorization and social sharing, you could take it in either of those directions

[raghav_nautiyal]

Noted! All of the points you mentioned also seem really interesting, I think this might make it more seamless for users.

Yup, I think Pinterest is great for discovering interesting links, I think the direction SeeLink should go in is the social sharing and work related sharing of links.

Thanks for all the comments!

[shrikant]

Congrats on launching a very cool project!

Given that you're from Mumbai, I want you to know that I see what you did with name, and appreciate the pun!

[raghav_nautiyal]

Haha, the pun was a big part of the project's naming process. Glad you appreciate it!