Show HN: I made a tool for curating and sharing links as lists

https://snack.xyz/

by chshux • 2 years ago

58 33 2 years ago

snack.xyz

franze• 2 years ago

Is there a single example on how it will look like somwhere? I dont see any? (Mobile Browser)

chshux12• 2 years ago

hey! sure, here's one of my lists

https://snkl.ink/l/ZlBxSn

kevin_thibedeau• 2 years ago

Needs a way for listed sites to display a link ring component to counteract the loss of discoverability in modern search.

abraxas• 2 years ago

Oh, we're bringing back webrings now? That's one piece of internet lore I forgot about!

chshux12• 2 years ago

haven't heard of link rings before, will look into it

wenbin• 2 years ago

This is awesome! Is there an example list from Snack.xyz?

People love building lists on the internet.

Browser bookmarks are lists.

Podcasts/RSS feeds are lists.

YouTube has Watch Later / playlists.

Newsfeeds are lists.

Pinterest has a lot of lists of images.

chshux12• 2 years ago

example list here :)

https://app.snack.xyz/charles/the-best-websites-in-web3

aspenmayer• 2 years ago

Instead of/in addition to cleaning dead links, this would benefit from integrated link archival via third parties or a first party integration, self-hosted solution, and/or bring-your-own API key to third party archives like Wayback Machine, archive.is, or others.

chshux12• 2 years ago

ohhh gotcha, didn't even think about this. will look into it and see how we could implement something like this. thanks!

thebird• 2 years ago

You missed a golden opportunity to call it Linked List!

chshux12• 2 years ago

nice! the idea behind "Snack" is that they are internet shareables. shorter domain is my preference as well.

jcsnv• 2 years ago

I'd recommend adding a sample list to the home page - "Demo"!

chshux12• 2 years ago

good idea -- will add to the homepage!

mmasu• 2 years ago

i cannot go past the signup page, however it seems to be the same idea behind the now defunct delicious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

alexchantavy• 2 years ago

yeahh this was my first thought. i miss del.icio.us, the tagging was so good and helped me keep things organized and discover high quality content

gala8y• 2 years ago

Loved del.icio.us. This is a pet peeve of mine, that proper tagging (with AND & filtering properly implemented) is rare in software. Tagging peaked with del.icio.us.

whalesalad• 2 years ago

I think https://pinboard.in/ is the closest living replacement.

chshux12• 2 years ago

hey! thanks for trying, you should be able to enter your email and continue through the flow. if you wouldn't mind trying again?

Atalocke2• 2 years ago

On the signup page, if you click off the modal, it'll render a blank white page with just the logo that doesn't go anywhere.

chshux12• 2 years ago

got it, thanks for the feedback! will fix

Atalocke2• 2 years ago

Trying to sign up, if you click off the modal the whole page goes white except for the logo in the navbar, but it won't take you anywhere.

chshux12• 2 years ago

noted, thank you!

MattRix• 2 years ago

Starting the page with the sign up button before telling me what the page is seems like a mistake. I almost closed the page at first (it’s not even obvious that you can scroll, it looks like a full page popup).

You should show example screenshots of actual useful lists people could share. The site is currently too focused on “what” you can do (features and capabilities), and not enough focused on “why” (practical real world use cases).

chshux12• 2 years ago

this is great feedback, thanks for trying it out!

and yes, will work on adding more use cases to the home page

hi_hi• 2 years ago

I've had a similar idea kicking around for some time now. This might be it.

One of the core concepts I wanted was to see how my list E.g. "Top 10 Best burger joints in <city>" or "Top 5 white wines for a Summers evening" compared to others similar lists. I've never been able to land on how to best implement something like this, without requiring some kind of strict tagging by the user to enable like for like comparisons and accurate rankings.

I wanted to call it "Social List" / "Socialist" :-)

jayunit• 2 years ago

Language models or embedding distance might work quite well. Cool idea! :)

chshux12• 2 years ago

lovely idea! the core of Snack is that it is not a "social" platform persay, but will at some point have the ability to see top lists.

the idea is that curators known for their domain expertise, e.g. MKBHD for tech products as a list, would be more popular/shared than others.

ms7892• 2 years ago

Lovely idea!

ellis0n• 2 years ago

Amazing tool! but I prefer LiveComment

chshux12• 2 years ago

thanks! thoughts on what you like about LiveComment?

saaaaaam• 2 years ago

Love this! A few comments:

1. When I delete a link from one of my snacks it opens a new tab with a 404. Is that expected? 2. There seems to be no persistent identifier for a snack - if I change the title, the URL changes and then the previous URL is dead. While it's nice to have a human readable URL is that actually necessary, or could you use a string? Maybe it's a SEO thing though, in which case maybe the title and the URL should be uncoupled so that changing the title doesn't break the link to the snack. 3. It would be nice to be able to add an image to the snack header, as well as the emoji. Maybe using unsplash or something. And maybe some colour styling.

grvdrm• 2 years ago

Love how dead simple and to the point this is. Great job. Put some stuff about it in my newsletter so you might see some traffic from a newsletter called The Teardown (on Substack)

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