Show HN: Snipthat.io – save interesting text snippets you find whilst browsing (opens in new tab)

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1 pointsmark_mcnally_je3y ago1 comments

I always wanted a place where I could save interesting snippets of text I find on the web, things like tweets, HN/reddit comments and little parts of blog posts and the like.

This tool is a browser extension, all you do is highlight text, right click and then you can send it to snipthat.

There are currently no logins, when you first get the browser extension you get a UUID which links to your snippets.

Site is very much in an alpha stage, I intend to add logins and you will be able to link your UUID to your login so you won't lose anything.

Any feedback / ideas appreciated!

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mark_mcnally_jeOP3y ago

If anyone is interested in the tech behind this; I used the Django rest framework and vanilla javascript to write the extension. I wrote it to be compatible with Firefox and chrome with the firefox polyfill which worked a treat in development.

Until I came to publish and I had to convert the chrome extension to manifest V3 which was not as easy as I thought it would be.

The chrome approvals process also took way longer then firefox did!

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