Plinky

Easily save links, enjoy them later

iOS

Browser Extensions

Productivity

Hey there ProductHunt! I'm Joe Fabisevich, a former tech lead at Twitter who worked on Societal Health — focused on misinformation, disinformation, and civic integrity. (I've also built apps for Bitly, Timehop, Teachable, and a whole bunch of other startups). Now, I do something completely different — I build personal, playful, productivity apps as an indie developer at Red Panda Club. I recently launched Plinky, an app that helps you easily save links no matter where you are in just one tap. You can save links on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can save links in your favorite browser like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Or you can even build your own integrations to save links with Zapier or Plinky's API, I've even partnered with apps like Unread to build native integrations to streamline saving links while reading RSS. All of your links are saved in one place, a home for your links that you can organize with Folders, Tags, and Search. There are other apps out there like Plinky, and I'll be the first to say they're great in their own way. None of them were quite right for me though, where Plinky excels is a combination of simplicity and customization. As I’ve built Plinky I've heard people tell me about the myriad of techniques they have for saving and storing links. There are an unending amount of organizational methods people use to reference links they might need later, but none of those perfectly fit into one app. The experience of listening to Plinky's beta testers led me to three realizations: 1. It needs to be easy to save a link, the simpler the better. Saving a link shouldn't take work, it needs to be one tap, so you can easily save a link. 2. People's workflows benefit from having a universal inbox for their links. It should be easy to organize and find links you've saved for later, otherwise why are you even saving them? 3. People aren't always looking for an app dedicated to reading articles. The diversity of links people save means many people are looking for a tool that helps them do anything with the links they've saved, a Swiss army knife for their links. The idea for Plinky came when I used to send my girlfriend links I saw throughout the day — articles, funny tweets, cute videos, etc. She loved that I was thinking of her, but found it distracting when her phone buzzed with all of the links I sent her while she was working. She suggested saving the links for later, to share once she was done working. I tried filling up the Notes app with links, but that quickly became a disorganized mess. I left dozens of browser tabs open, but then I didn't ever have the links I wanted to show her when I wanted to show them to her. I wanted one place that made it easy to find all my saved links, so I made Plinky, and since then as I’ve shown Plinky to people I’ve become fascinated with all of the different ways people want to save the links in their lives. I've been most excited by how much what features people are requesting mirrors the roadmap I've constructed for Plinky. Over the coming months Plinky users will have the ability to: - Add timed reminders for your links, for the purpose of reviewing a link in a certain time or context. - Import your links from services like GoodLinks, Raindrop, Pocket, and other places you may already have your links saved. - Indulge in an elegant reading experience that lets you customize fonts, sizes, and background color for the ideal read it later experience. - Enjoy a native Mac app, one that takes the beautiful design Plinky already provides on iPhone and iPad and makes it feels right at home on the Mac. Lastly I'd like to say I've genuinely been blown away by how much the community has come out to support me. Many more people have tried the app than I could have expected, and many have subscribed to Plinky Pro because they love my take on a link saving app. Even more importantly many of those people have reached out to tell me that they love the product, and want to make it a part of their lives. I truly can't put a price on kindness like that, but to show my gratitude for everyone who's helped I'm offering a 50% discount for ProductHunt users for Plinky's yearly subscription if you sign up through this link: https:///plinky.app/offer/PHFRIENDS Thank you so much, I'll be here all day!