InterlinkFeb 4, 2023
When I started working on Interlink, I used Pinboard as the blueprint. It has always been my favorite kind of services: does one thing and does it well, simple yet versatile. There’re different ways to add links to and retrieve them from Pinboard: bookmarklet, browser extensions, support from automation tools like Zapier / IFTTT / Make, API, RSS feeds, etc.
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Typical bookmarks aside, I keep my liked YouTube videos, starred Reeder articles, listened podcast episodes from Castro inside Pinboard thanks to its simple API and 3rd party automation tools. Over the last 10 years I accumulated close to 30,000 links in my account.
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The missing piece as of 2020 was a modern iOS app. At one point there was a vibrant scene of 3rd party Pinboard clients until they disappeared one by one due to what I guess was sustainability. I made a bet and spent a few months working on Pins to deliver a best-in-class client for iOS + macOS. It worked out pretty well.
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Fast forward to 2023, I’m building a new link organizer to address Pins’ shortcomings (mostly due to API limitation): limited “syncing” capabilities, lack of bulk link management (batch processing), among others. While I’m aware of similar offerings (bookmarking is so last century), I want something mobile-first instead of web-first.

This becomes Interlink’s roadmap:

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The closer it is to beta, the more work left to be done. I expect to have the first TestFlight build ready in the next 2 weeks for a very limited group of testers before opening the gate, Ivory for Mastodon-style.

One more thing: How much are you willing to pay for this as a subscription-based app? I have a number in mind, but am curious to hear your take on it.

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@interlink I still have a very complicated relationship to Pinboard. I’m a bit OCD‘d so it annoys me that I have hundreds of „abandoned“ links there - either not maintained (tags, description, etc) or maybe completely irrelevant for me by now (so deletion would be right).
That makes me afraid of putting more links to Pinboard/Pins than absolutely necessary or using it as my daily driver (eg for „to read“ stuff, I will just forget it there).
So I’m very curious if Interlink would suit me better.
Feb 4, 2023 at 7:37amWeb