the.com/pinboard
The internet's junk drawer, run by one guy who refuses to add features or sell out.
means A website for saving and organizing links as a personal, no-frills bookmark collection.
from Straightforwardly named after the physical pinboard — a corkboard where you stick notes, photos, and scraps with pins so you can find them later. The web version just swapped thumbtacks for hyperlinks.
- founder stance
- Maciej Ceglowski runs it solo, on purpose
- business model
- charges money instead of selling your data
- rise moment
- grew fast when Delicious users fled in panic
- design philosophy
- ugly by choice, fast by necessity