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http://www.rinnku.com

by rinnku • 15 years ago

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rinnku5• 15 years ago

When Rinnku.com launched our intention was to bridge the gap between community news and social bookmarking (Digg + Delicious if you will).

In the six weeks since launch we’ve had some success. In particular over 18,000 links have been imported from Delicious.com by users who needed a more modern bookmarking experience.

However feedback from our users has shown we missed the mark. They don’t want or need another community news site.

So after crying in a corner for a while we went back to our users and asked - well what do you want? They told us they wanted a bookmarking service that’s effortless to use - "something that just works".

And that’s what we’re building. We’ve simplified the UI to make finding your links easier and quicker, enabled 1 click saving of links, added more help for new users and committed ourselves to creating the best bookmarking service in the universe.

I'd love to hear your comments.

itsthemummies• 15 years ago

The name is a little "racist."

hrasm2• 15 years ago

Wow. I just realised. Nevertheless, I wouldn't term it racist.

hrasm2• 15 years ago

Some comment(s):

- You want to have captcha for 2 successive failed login attempts.

AndrewDucker2• 15 years ago

I largely use Delicious as a way of posting a daily linkblog on Livejournal (see http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/tag/links )

If I'm switching to somewhere else it will need to have the facility to post daily updates to blogs/journals/etc.

streety2• 15 years ago

It looks like a nicely designed homepage that gets your point across well.

I clicked on the "Switch from Delicious?" button expecting to be able to authenticate with delicious and get going straight away. Instead I got a not terribly well presented list of reasons why I might choose to switch. At the very least there should be a clear call to action at the bottom of that list.

For sign-up is the CAPTCHA really necessary? If I understand your service correctly there is relatively little advantage to be gained by signing up multiple spam accounts and the presence of the CAPTCHA will reduce legitimate sign-ups.

rinnku5• 15 years ago

Good points - thanks for the help.

I used the captcha to avoid having robots sign up but then maybe that is overkill?

guynamedloren• 15 years ago

Not a bad launch. I'm curious to hear about how you marketed and gained your initial users. Care to share a bit?

rinnku5• 15 years ago

To start with I emailed TechCrunch. I was 99% sure they'd ignore me (bookmarking isnt sexy I guess) but I had to try right?

After 3 days with no reply I posted "review my site" posts HackerNews/Reddit and asked people at KillerStartUps, Lifehacker, feedmyapp, thenextweb, mashable as well as others to review my site.

I got most hits from thestartupfoundry.com (people linking to my site from my responses to other peoples posts), Reddit (launch post) and feedmyapp.com (site review)

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