Chris Messina

Refind - Worth your attention

Refind helps you read more of what’s worth your attention.

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Charles Lehman
I see my home screen has popular content, but what about an easy way to just see the links I've saved? Maybe when user clicks inside of the search bar, you display the available filters? That was my expected behavior..
Dominik Grolimund
@3lehman That's a good idea, thanks! Currently you need to click on the user icon on the top right, and then on your name (two clicks, but one-click would be nice ;).
Charles Lehman
@dominikg Looks like my Disconnect Chrome extension (https://disconnect.me/) was hiding the profile button on the right-hand side. Makes much more sense now. Thanks!
Dominik Grolimund
@3lehman Ah, I see! Thanks for letting me know.
Sequoia
If you allow users to auto save favorited tweets ---I'd pay u!
Dominik Grolimund
@seq23 You can auto-import your Tweets (https://refind.com/settings/import). That imports all links you Tweet about. If you want a filter for favorites only, I could do that... depending on much you pay ;-) No, seriously, I've heard that once before (I think from @chrismessina) and I have a Trello card for that. Waiting to hear it a bit more often before implementing it, ok?
Simon Wüthrich
@dominikg, well, here you are. Please let me import links from Tweets I've liked. @seq23
Dominik Grolimund
@siwue @seq23 Hehe, peer-pressure ;)
Elena Benito Ruiz
@dominikg why not ifttt or zapier for that?
Dominik Grolimund
@seq23 A long time ago you asked for an option to auto-import links in Tweets you like. I've just gotten around to implementing this: https://refind.com/settings/import. If you haven't used Refind in a while, you should have a look – the product has improved a lot, see http://refind.productmap.co/
Carlos Herrera

I've been using Refind for a week or so and I have read so many good articles. The quality of the posts Refind finds is amazing.

Sometimes the amount of good links results in lower productivity :/ I'm working on this.

Kudos on the makers, this is a very useful tool.

Pros:

Lots of good links, very interesting information I couldn't find by myself. It's a great source of news.

Cons:

I only wanted to have an option to see the chrome links I had in my default new tab page. Not a big deal though.

Rodrigo Prior
A simple and very effective product! Love the way it works silently and almost invisible in a very useful way! Congrats @dominikg
Dominik Grolimund
Carlo Badini
Used it for a few weeks now. Mainly as a source of great content. I especially love the weekly digest. Great stuff!
Marcus Kuhn
@carlobadini it is interesting how much better the digest was for me compared to the one from Pocket. That one in my feeling just has gotten so much worse over time.
Raul Rocawabe
Good idea, you need to get how to keep users at the beginning. Instead of proposing following Twitter users I would prefer to engage by showing my saves (even if I am alone). Good job!
Dominik Grolimund
@rrrraulsc Gotcha! Refind has two main use cases: 1. archive/search (single player), 2. discovery (multi player). It's a question of emphasis, of course, but can easily use only use case 1 – simply unfollow everyone :)
David Carpe
will your revenue plan involve sharing or analyzing links (including my own) and then selling ads against it, or data in bulk?
Dominik Grolimund
@passingnotes I don't have any revenue plans!
David Carpe
@dominikg hah! hope there is something to make it stick around before people start building their collections around it! maybe a Kickstarter to ensure life for at least 2 years?
Dominik Grolimund
@passingnotes Hehe :) Don't worry... I'm intending to work on this for a very long time and got that covered. I really want to get the params right and provide value. All else will follow...
Rick Kats
somehow i see it being competitive to product hunt? correct me if I'm wrong :) I know you say all links, but saving the best is what I already do here :).
Dominik Grolimund
@rickats I say "all links". Joking aside, I see the two as being quite different and I'd like to integrate with Product Hunt! One example: Product Hunt has an awesome community with huge engagement – if a link to a product gets saved to Refind that has been discussed on Product Hunt, I'd like to link to that discussion from Refind... (and other ideas).
Rick Kats
@dominikg got it! i'll give it a spin and let you know - either way fantastic work on the UI :) clean and simple just the way i like em
Dominik Grolimund
@rickats Thanks a lot!
Nick Giovacchini
Will there be a Safari Web Browser extension? (Not iOS)
Dominik Grolimund
@gioismeyo There is! https://refind.com/settings (Save Button). Does that work? And it will soon be in the Safari Extension Gallery too.
Asbjørn Andersen
This looks great. Also pretty neat onboarding proces. Well done :)
Dominik Grolimund
@batteryless Thanks! :)