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by piterrro 815 days ago
Yeeeears ago (around 2011/2012) I've built a simple bookmarking app called Miitla (MInd IT LAter), you can still find references to it[1]. I was focused on providing a simple bookmarking experience with tags and such. Unfortunately, I was not motivated enough to keep updating the project and in the end, I stopped. I got a few thousand users, but at the time my day job was generating nice income and I wasn't thinking about monetizing Miitla.

To this day, I regret that I did not pursue it and transformed into something bigger.

Congrats on the launch, what catches my attention is the simplicity. Keep it like this for long enough and you will get many users.

[1]http://ratemystartup.com/save-links-with-one-click-miitla-co...

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Here is an interesting plot twist. At the time, one of Miitla "competitors" was Kippt[1], I was impressed with their design at the time and followed them very carefully. Turns out, Kippt founder is Linear founder these days...

Persistence is the key.

[1]https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kippt

I agree persistence is key! Oddly though the kippt homepage doesn't seem to load for me.
It has been discontinued given that Coinbase acqui-hired the Kippt team (2 people)