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Ashwinn@shwinnabego · Co-founder, Point
Hey PH! I'm one of the guys working on Point. For the curious, we started building Point to solve one of our personal frustrations -- we were constantly sharing links throughout the day with our friends (mostly via email + group threads), and wanted a simpler, more effective way to do this. What we've designed (so far) is a plugin for your browser that g… See more
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Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@Shwinnabego what lessons are you guys taking from how Delicious did? agree with @jtriest that it's pretty ;)
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Ashwinn@shwinnabego · Co-founder, Point
@eriktorenberg haha thanks Erik! Without mentioning Delicious specifically (I think it was an awesome platform) -- one thing we've been careful to do is keep the product core to a single use case: here, privately sharing & talking about links with your friends. It's a behavior that we already do with pretty heavy frequency (think of how often you might… See more
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Brady Swenson@bswen · Technologist. Designer. Photographer.
@Shwinnabego This is great, we've started using Point today for link sharing and will continue to use it - easier than pasting links into a Slack room and the in context discussion and highlighting brings a lot of value. Thanks!
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Ashwinn@shwinnabego · Co-founder, Point
@bswen awesome! super excited to hear that!
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Matt Gardner@thatmattgardner · Co-Founder, RouteThis.com
@Shwinnabego Hey Ashwinn, our last product was something VERY close to Point ;) www.discobeta.com if you want to see. If you ever want to chat, feel free to reach out. Our trigger is press and hold of the mouse, we still use it internally as the pain is real for close friends/teams!
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Alex Schiff@alexschiff · Cofounder and CEO, Fetchnotes
@Shwinnabego nice work Ashwin! Really love the experience and on-boarding - very well-done. The whole @ interaction is very smooth as far as ensuring I'm not in a text field to register. A couple pieces of feedback: 1) When I hit @ (before typing another letter), I wish it would show me a list of all my contacts I could scroll through. At least on my end, … See more
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Ashwinn@shwinnabego · Co-founder, Point
@alexschiff thanks for the comments! I was beginning to type up a reply, but wanted to reference a couple parts of your comments. I requested you as a friend on Point -- maybe we can have a meta convo on top of this page ;)
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