Congrats, guys. I definitely like the concept and how it could actually help promote reading. I love @pocket, but my issue is that I find myself saving a ton of interesting content, but never going back there to read it. I'm thinking Roundview could help motivate me to actually move through that list.
Any thoughts on how you would engage your users to actually consume the content that is coming through Roundview?
@dskaletsky great question Derek - I'm sure that is a comment that the @pocket folks are much more capable of answering.
part of the value prop here is recording stuff that you may already be consuming. for example, if you are researching fundraising for your start-up, you can use @roundview to record that and essentially build a record that you took the time and effort to do so for when you are talking to investors, etc.
but i agree - that is the struggle. i think i have 1000+ items in my @pocket queue.
@josephkerns Hmmm...ok. So, I won't actually be consuming content on Roundview? It's only when I read on one of the other platforms that it gets recorded on your system?
Are you able to tell me what I haven't read on @pocket (ie - you have X unread posts in your @pocket account)?
@dskaletsky yup, great question.
you certainly can consume content on @roundview, but it is not a fully built out consumption platform yet. over time, that is the intention to make that as comprehensive as possible.
however, for the post-alpha / early-beta version - we are just recording + analyzing what we have read on Pocket and Readability. we can use the API to tell you what you haven't read or have in the hopper - definitely a feature we can implement!
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This is interesting, particularly when I have 100+ in queue at @Pocket. @tkalimov , I read the five use cases that you listed at: http://blog.roundview.co/2014/07.... However, I would love to be able to setup reading goals for myself so that the queue begins to get addressed? :)
@vingar Hey Vinish - thanks for the comment. We had the idea of goals in our alpha version, but didn't feel like we had a great understanding of what the user wanted out of them. Love the feedback though - maybe we can chat over email about what you may be looking for? I'm at joe at roundview dot co. Thanks!
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@josephkerns Thanks Joe, my email should take off by tomorrow my time!
Very cool @josephkerns and @tkalimov! Discovery is a really interesting feature to me, I'm typically asking people I respect what they're reading. I think I'd still do that IRL but definitely value in bringing some of that online & more efficiently.
What are you thinking for your next integration?
@AnthonyMarnell thanks! We definitely do that as well - we have "go-to" friends when we want to learn about certain subjects and this helps make it more tangible.
In terms of integrations, we want to get down reading (i.e., @feedly, @instapaper, @goodreads), but eventually want to move into video (@youtube) and podcasts (@soundcloud). Plus I'm sure @jberrebi would agree that @pmarca tweetstorms are another good way to learn!
@katlady10 oh, wonderful feedback - thanks Kat. We'll definitely have to look into that. Love what you guys are doing @degreed - seems like we both certainly believe a lot of the same things! cc @tkalimov
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@josephkerns yes - it does! Love seeing the breakdown of the types of things I read - I'm always amazed when I get feedback on my learning. I may think I am spending time in one area, when it reality I'm spending it somewhere else. Would love to chat more!
@nsharp17 Great question - to be honest not something that we have thought about yet (or dug into)! Love the question though - maybe we can do a blog post about it!
Hi everyone, and thanks for stopping by! @josephkerns and I are self-taught developers and built Roundview to help better track, synthesize, and communicate what we are reading online. We are just beyond alpha stage, built on top of @Pocket and @Readability for our beta, and have a lot to polish but wanted to launch to the community.
Currently, the core features that we can provide @Pocket and @Readability readers are three-fold:
“Quantified Self” - we can help you quantify the reading that you are doing on a daily basis as well as conduct semantic analysis to help you categorize it
“Discover” - we can help you see what you and your friends have read (as in - actually have read) in common and share your archives for friends
“Public Profiles” - something we are experimenting with (as we see @pocket and @feedly) doing too is public profiles. We have started by scraping Twitter reading information for investing luminaries such as Marc Andreessen and Fred Wilson, and will continue to experiment on those fronts.
Looking forward to your thoughts!
So I've been using this for a few weeks now and it's one of my favorite new apps. I don't say that lightly.
I love being able to quantify what I'm reading and I think it's definitely encouraged me to read more. I look forward to more people being on the platform so I can discover what we've read in common and find new content to add to my Pocket.
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