Show HN: signal -- a community link blog

6 points by pignata 14y ago ↗ HN

My weekend hack project was to put together a small web app for sharing links in the spirit of memepool.com. It uses a bookmarklet to let people clip interesting articles to share while reading and uses a subset of markdown to add links and blockquotes to posts. It also uses oEmbed to pull in content from popular sites (youtube, slideshare, vimeo, etc) and API integrations to show tweets.

It was fun to build - I'd love feedback. Thanks!

http://findsignal.com

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imcqueen 14y ago ↗

This is pretty cool, I just gave it a test drive. At scale the global pool would probably get really noisy. The tracking thing helps, could the posts be arranged by subject? Do comments impact the order of the posts?

pignata 14y ago ↗

Thanks for the feedback! Currently links are only shown chronologically. There's a tag mechanism that surfaces the links by topic. Agreed that it could get noisy - likely though that could be helped by allowing people to create their own custom pools of topics and people.

iworkforthem 14y ago ↗

easy to click link: http://findsignal.com

Er... should make it easy to sign up, twitter or facebook maybe. Tot no body fill up the full forms these days.

joshu 14y ago ↗

Ha! I wrote memepool a million years ago.

I wish I knew what to do with it. Everything I design in my head ends up being either delicious or reddit.