This has become my go to highlighting tool. Makes it so easy to share that fascinating tidbit from a Kindle book or Bloomberg article.
Really enjoyed your thought-piece on the highlight layer -- admit that I've never thought about it this way before.
Congrats on the launch, @covrter! Having been a fan for a while, I know you took your time to make sure the launch was just perfect. Can you talk about how you thought about what you needed to be ready for launch, and how that process played out in practice?
@eriktorenberg Great, hard question: when is the thing Good Enough to launch? For us, it was: do we make good on the core promise that you can highlight as you’re reading? Or from a jobs-to-do POV: does our imperfect execution already do a valuable-enough job that people will stick around and help us figure out how to perfect it? We’re guessing yes.
This guess is informed by lots and lots of user testing (much love to our patient, wonderful testers!). The core highlighting functionality was complete long before it was user-friendly-(enough) to ship.
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This is a really great, well designed, effective product. Fits nicely between social, curation and bookmarking - would be great to see some functionality built out on the social side and categorisation tools.
Thanks @kkdub ! Room for improvement for sure. Some things we're working on, and some things we think will improve at the OS level with time. Thanks for checking us out. DM me on Twitter @wuebben if you're up for talking details. I'd love to hear more about your instincts.
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Been using Highly since they launched in early 2015 - love it so much. Although I'm a filthy Android user, the web version + Chrome extension are fantastic. Great job, Andrew and Eric!
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