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by mseebach 4842 days ago
The "number of clicks" table and the pain described in the video (when you see a nice picture online, you'll want to navigate through a messy folder structure and save it to your filesystem) reeks of not having a good idea of the niche the product is trying to fill. The first is fallacious (I don't know how they count, by I can clip things to Evernote in two clicks and I don't think a long drag is necessarily better than two clicks), the second is just weird - non-social bookmarking is as old as the browser, it's called "bookmarks". The UI for the site just looks like Pinterest.
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> non-social bookmarking is as old as the browser, it's called "bookmarks".

But "bookmarks" sucks for many people. I want something like any of those social bookmark sites, but I have no interest in the social stuff. I just want a nicer way to see my bookmarks.

> The UI for the site just looks like Pinterest.

And compared to a huge nested list of folders looking like Pinterest is probably a good thing.

I have no disagreement with these points, my point is that they're competing against a straw man. This leaves me with the question; what do they actually do different from their actual competition? When leave me to speculate that they're just another social bookmarking clone, bringing little new to the table.