Plinky

Name: Plinky
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Easily save links, enjoy them later

5.0•1 review•

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Easily save links, enjoy them later

5.0•1 review•

163 followers

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Plinky helps you save links seamlessly with just one tap. Whether you're on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or in your favorite browser, all your links are saved in an easy to use app. Search for links or organize neatly with folders and tags, on your iPhone or iPad.

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Plinky

Maker

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Hey there ProductHunt! I'm Joe Fabisevich, a former tech lead at Twitter who worked on Societal Health — focused on misinformation, disinformation, and civic integrity. (I've also built apps for Bitly, Timehop, Teachable, and a whole bunch of other startups). Now, I do something completely different — I build personal, playful, productivity apps as an indie developer at Red Panda Club. I recently launched Plinky, an app that helps you easily save links no matter where you are in just one tap. You can save links on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can save links in your favorite browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Or you can even build your own integrations to save links with Zapier or Plinky's API, I've even partnered with apps like Unread to build native integrations to streamline saving links while reading RSS. All of your links are saved in one place, a home for your links that you can organize with Folders, Tags, and Search. There are other apps out there like Plinky, and I'll be the first to say they're great in their own way. None of them were quite right for me though, where Plinky excels is a combination of simplicity and customization. As I’ve built Plinky I've heard people tell me about the myriad of techniques they have for saving and storing links. There are an unending amount of organizational methods people use to reference links they might need later, but none of those perfectly fit into one app. The experience of listening to Plinky's beta testers led me to three realizations: 1. It needs to be easy to save a link, the simpler the better. Saving a link shouldn't take work, it needs to be one tap, so you can easily save a link. 2. People's workflows benefit from having a universal inbox for their links. It should be easy to organize and find links you've saved for later, otherwise why are you even saving them? 3. People aren't always looking for an app dedicated to reading articles. The diversity of links people save means many people are looking for a tool that helps them do anything with the links they've saved, a Swiss army knife for their links. The idea for Plinky came when I used to send my girlfriend links I saw throughout the day — articles, funny tweets, cute videos, etc. She loved that I was thinking of her, but found it distracting when her phone buzzed with all of the links I sent her while she was working. She suggested saving the links for later, to share once she was done working. I tried filling up the Notes app with links, but that quickly became a disorganized mess. I left dozens of browser tabs open, but then I didn't ever have the links I wanted to show her when I wanted to show them to her. I wanted one place that made it easy to find all my saved links, so I made Plinky, and since then as I’ve shown Plinky to people I’ve become fascinated with all of the different ways people want to save the links in their lives. I've been most excited by how much what features people are requesting mirrors the roadmap I've constructed for Plinky. Over the coming months Plinky users will have the ability to: - Add timed reminders for your links, for the purpose of reviewing a link in a certain time or context. - Import your links from services like GoodLinks, Raindrop, Pocket, and other places you may already have your links saved. - Indulge in an elegant reading experience that lets you customize fonts, sizes, and background color for the ideal read it later experience. - Enjoy a native Mac app, one that takes the beautiful design Plinky already provides on iPhone and iPad and makes it feels right at home on the Mac. Lastly I'd like to say I've genuinely been blown away by how much the community has come out to support me. Many more people have tried the app than I could have expected, and many have subscribed to Plinky Pro because they love my take on a link saving app. Even more importantly many of those people have reached out to tell me that they love the product, and want to make it a part of their lives. I truly can't put a price on kindness like that, but to show my gratitude for everyone who's helped I'm offering a 50% discount for ProductHunt users for Plinky's yearly subscription if you sign up through this link: https:///plinky.app/offer/PHFRIENDS Thank you so much, I'll be here all day!

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@imtarajones Not quite! It can be used in that way, but if you use Plinky you can use it like Pocket, but you can also use it many different ways. I provided more detail in another comment, but Pocket is very much a read it later app while Plinky allows you to create your own workflow with your links. https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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2yr ago

i use notion for the same. how does this compare to notion? why should I switch to this? maybe a good explanation will get you a loyal customer

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@kshetez_vinayak I'll be the first to admit that you can do pretty much anything in Notion, same as I tried to use the Notes app to save links for my fiancée. Over time though the system doesn't scale. Folders, Tags, and Pinned Links help make Plinky a place for links, with a fully customizable interface tailored to links that makes Plinky your home for links. On top of that, saving a link to Notion is a bit of a chore compared to Plinky, I recommend trying it out to see for yourself how much faster and easier it is to save a link. That's just today, Plinky's roadmap is full of features that take advantage of Plinky's focus on links, rather than being an app for all text. - Timed reminders will help you review links at the right time in the right context. - There will be an elegant offline reading experience for reading articles anywhere you go. - Organization rules for websites will put links in the right place, for example making sure that links from CNN or The NY Times always end up in your News folder, or that posts from Threads or X get a social tag applied to them. - And a native Mac app will bring Plinky's experience right at home to you on your Mac. There are many more features I'm thinking of as well, but so far these are the ones that users have asked for because they want to make Plinky the app they use to save their links, and I think they'll really separate Plinky from an app like Notion.

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2yr ago

@mergesort thanks for the detailed explanation. I will try and see for myself. good luck for your future updates

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@kshetez_vinayak Thank you!

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2yr ago

Fleso

Congratulations @mergesort ! I saw that you already answered this question, but I have the same one: why weren't your competitors good enough?

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@mplebl Thank you so much! Hope you don't mind but I wrote a reasonably lengthy reply so I'll link to it, as to not spam the comments. 😄 https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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2yr ago

Nice idea~ I recommend notes Apps to consider if that's a good improve for user experience, may we can send links to a user account via facebook/ Wechat, then online system can handle link bounds to different types or albums. @evernote @youdao_tang

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2yr ago

Timer4Life

I wonder why other similar tools weren't right for you. Also, do you plan to launch a reminders feature? For example, I often save links related to shopping, intending to go through them later when buying gifts for friends. However, I frequently forget about these saved links, and when it's time to make a gift decision, I start searching again or check my browsing history. Having customizable reminders would greatly help me. Of course, my case might be rare.

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@anastasiia_stepko Hey Anastasiia, a reminders feature is the first big feature I'll be launching! I'm working on allowing people to import their links from other services like GoodLinks, Raindrop, and Pocket right now, but then (after my wedding 🥳) I'll be adding the link reminders feature for the exact use case you mentioned, and more.

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2yr ago

Timer4Life

@mergesort Wohooo! Congratulations, I'm so, so happy for you!

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@anastasiia_stepko Thank you very much, if you try the app I would love to know what you think of Plinky!

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2yr ago

LinkedCRM AI

Congratulations! 🎉 Is there a Google Chrome extension for links? It seems more convenient to use a browser extension for that

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@zenda1122 Thank you very much! And there sure is. You can download the Chrome extension at https://plinky.app/chrome and start saving links today. 🙂

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2yr ago

Since there are many other link saving and bookmarking tools out there, how is this different?

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2yr ago

Plinky

Maker

@shushant_lakhyani Links come in all forms. An article just isn't the same as a Tweet or Instagram post you want to show a friend. A YouTube video or TikTok won't even open in an app dedicated to reading. Many apps like LinkedIn or Facebook have their own bookmarking systems, but I've wasted hours bouncing from app to app trying to remember where that link I saw a month ago but need now is. Apps like Pocket or Instapaper are heavily focused on reading, but not all links are saved to be read as long-form content. Services like Pinboard are really focused on archiving, I've used many of them and genuinely think they're great for nerdy people like me. Plinky aims to solve these problems, but in a way that's highly customizable so you can have a link-saving app that truly feels like your home for links. Plinky needs to be powerful, yet always simple enough for my mom to use without compromise or confusion. You can change the look and feel of almost every component in Plinky, especially how links are presented. You have control over the workflows for saving links, with more features like post-save quick actions or link reminders that will help make Plinky an even better universal inbox for your links. As I continue to add features you'll have even more control over your experience, which is something that no other app out there provides.

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