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I regularly chat with folks running competitors to my business. It's a fairly niche space so there's not many people who understand what we're dealing with day to day.

I remove them from my user forums when I see them join, mostly because I like to post my product roadmap there. They could join pseudonymously, but time spent worrying about competitors is time better spent thinking about other stuff.

End of the day, a competitor can only beat you by building a better product or doing better marketing. Neither of those is possible by copying.

> You might be afraid of someone stealing your idea. Don’t be. Remember, ideas are an abundant commodity–it’s time that is scarce

I wish more people understood this! 2/3 of the time someone asks me to hear their idea they want me to sign an NDA first.

As though I have time to build a dating app that matches people based on their favorite color!

But seriously, I think people would be surprised how much two ideas can diverge based on execution and in most circumstances sharing your idea is very low risk.

linkdrop.co -- Pays for the occasional (happy hour) beer, but I have a huge backlog of user feedback and TODOs that I never have time for which is why I consider it half baked.

I posted about an extension I built to help me manage my bookmarks yesterday. It sends you an email of all the bookmarks you make for that day at the end of a day (similar to a news letter). You can find it at linkdrop.co

It sounds like you are more concerned with management than rediscovery, though, so it might not solve your usecase. In that case, I would definitely recommend getpocket.com for saving bookmarks across browsers/machines.

Cool - I'll check out how portable the code from chrome extension to firefox/safari extension is. This could be a quick work around if needed. Thanks!

Hey thanks! I've never seen mailist before. I probably wouldn't have built this if I had haha.

Hey thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad you find this tool helpful. If you have a minute, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could improve it further. My email is in my profile. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Ugh thank you for catching that. Will fix in the next push.

Interesting, the default behavior is for it to carry over but I thought that was weird so I clear the inputs when you switch between the two. I can see how that is annoying since they look so similar.

Hmm that's interesting. I'm not very familiar with bookmarklets. Could I sync and persist a uid so that I can store the bookmarks per user?

If I had known the response this would get I wouldn't have launched without it! I'll look into it over the next couple weeks. :)

Someone pointed me to this thread today based on a tool that I just built that emails you all the bookmarks you set at the end of the day. You can find it at linkdrop.co.