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by bananapub 648 days ago
$28/year, also "AI Suggestions" is the first item on the "Pro" features list.

I'm sure it's a fine CRUD app but I don't really hold hope for it being a long term success.

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Raindrop is not a new app. I've been using it for about five years now.

It's a solo developer project by one guy in Kazakhstan, which makes it all the more impressive. It has a great browser extension, a great desktop app (Electron-based, but very well done), and a great iOS mobile app (no idea about Android). It's also been under active development since I started using it.

One of its best features is its app, which allows you to browse your bookmarks in a split pane.

I've only checked out the AI feature now, since you mentioned it. I'm not a fan of pointless AI features that get added to apps, but this one is actually useful! It suggests places your bookmarks should be moved to. I had a bunch of stuff in an "Unsorted" folder, and it actually made really accurate suggestions for where they should be moved, and it also suggested moving some stuff I had miscategorized or where I had a more specific folder it could be in.

Honestly that's a rare good use case for AI: low stakes, passes through a human before anything actually happens, and is about ambiguos categorization based on human language.
Agreed!
This app added this AI feature recently. It is very successful for years before current LLM hype.