I do like to share links @ work, so sounds like I'm the target audience. But this is a near empty landing page, asking for my e-mail with almost no information about what the product is or how it works.
It would be nice to get a little more information. Screenshots, descriptions, pricing ... anything. Why would I want to just blindly sign up for something based on one sentence & 3 bullet points?
I blame the Lean Startup/Indiehackers mentality of validating, validating, validating before building anything. I mean, I get where they're coming from but it really hard to distinguish it from phisihing attacks.
First step of sign up requires an email.
Second sep verifies the email is active.
Third asks you to set a password.
They could be harvesting credentials and reverting on password reuse.
Our goal was simple: we wanted to share interesting links without constantly being distracted by messages or Slack notifications.
Itemsy is a free, shared bookmarking tool. All you have to do is:
1. Create an account at app.itemsy.com
2. Create a new private channel for your company
3. Invite your colleagues
4. Add interesting links to the channel (via the web app or by emailing it to share@itemsy.com with the name of your channel in the title)
As a result, you and your colleagues receive a daily newsletter with all the links to read, e.g. while commuting. You can also browse them all via the web app.
If you have a habit of sharing interesting reads within your team, we'd love for you to try it out!
1. What happens when someone follows my public profile?
They receive a daily newsletter with all the links you share on your public profile.
2. What are private channels?
You and friends or teammates you invite contribute links and receive the newsletter.
3. What happens when I invite someone to a private channel?
They receive an email notification. They need to log in to the web app and accept the invitation in order to be able to contribute to the channel and receive the newsletter.
4. When are newsletters sent out?
Channel admin can adjust it in newsletter settings (daily, by default).
I need to spend at least 15 minutes a day cleaning up my inbox at work, which can easily grow to an hour if I neglect it for a few days. This product sounds truly awful.
For this kind of thing Zotero[1] is a better solution. Moreover, it can be self-hosted and open source[2]. They even have a web browser extension (Chrome and Firefox), and a rich set of various plugins [3].
Actually I'm doing something similar [1] - but beside sharing links, tiomsu.com allows sharing (markdown) notes as well. There is YT video with brief overview [2].
This looks interesting, but I have to say the screenshots that only show outlines and no real content make it really difficult to get a feel for what the product actually does. I had to watch the video to get a better understanding.
This sounds like something that should be built into Slack. Some heuristics could be applied to whether or not a message is really indeed important, and only notify me if that's the case.
I've noticed there are 3 types of people when it comes to sharing interesting things on Slack work channels: 1) hates the distraction and would love a summary by email (me), 2) is fine with Slack and 3) doesn't really care and doesn't want to be involved.
The less work 1 and 3 have, the better. I think I'm proposing a slack-email brdige now. Things are getting out of hand :)
So is this designed to mine / crowd source “organic” user data in reading habits and trends for people who can’t keep up with the speed of slack, or store articles and reminders to read them on their own?
It's gonna be the latter. It's something we initially set up for ourselves because we really enjoyed the idea of receiving a daily newsletter of stuff to read rather than constant notifications.
It would be nice to get a little more information. Screenshots, descriptions, pricing ... anything. Why would I want to just blindly sign up for something based on one sentence & 3 bullet points?