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by eranation 4909 days ago
Along with the obvious question, how this is different from pinterest, I have one constructive comment, please don't use images for fonts, use a web-font, it will look better, load faster and will be a little bit more up to date generally.

Also the video loads slowly and gets stuck, and has no narration, and doesn't really show what the product does.

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Thanks for the feedback. You'll see web-fonts on the home page soon. We cheated with the images because I couldn't find a comparable web-font at the time.

We should have gone the route of hosting the video on YouTube instead of our server. Seems like my shoestring budget video production needs work too.

By the way I'm the cofounder of Collective.li and really appreciate the feedback.

Forgot to answer your obvious question. Pinterest is great for pictures and creating inspiration boards. We provide a richer experience regarding content collection e.g. you can clip articles, videos, content, tweets, facebook stories or take screenshots of pages along with traditional bookmarks using our Web Clipper https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/collectiveli/dddgd...

In addition to that you can organize all your content in collections that can themselves be organized into sub collections up to whatever depth you like.

And did I mention we do all the hard work of displaying all that content you collect in a nice magazine or grid or banner view?

Check out http://www.collective.li/App/#/Collection/9511

Thanks again for the feedback.