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Highly — Highlight any article and share it on social media
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Thanks for chatting, Andrew and Eric! I'm curious to check it out, but hit an "invite only" wall. Any chance you could make an invite code for PH users? (Or perhaps @Bosefina could post hers?)
I've been using Highly for months and love it. Eric and Andrew think deeply about the problems they're solving and it really shows in the design.
Thanks for posting @Bosefina. Maker of Highly here. We'd love to hear what you guys think!
Anybody remember snip.ly from 2010? Regardless all my snips are gone when they shut down. It would be nice to see a service like this last. https://www.crunchbase.com/organ...
A year later and Highly is still here -- congratulations! I must say, the "Your Week on Highly" email bulletin is one of my favourite email bulletins. The "Pop Trending Now" section features some amazing internet curation. How about some IFTTT integration this year?
I'm have always struggled with being able to share my readings on Twitter constrained by the 140 characters. Highly solves that problem with visually pleasing display of my highlights. Amazon Kindle Highlights have always been a source of pain b/c it feels like my highlights just go into the ether. With Highly I can save my readings, share, and also integrate with Pocket! The Pocket integration encourages me to read archived articles and share what resonates with the rest of the world! It really creates a virtuous cycle for reading :)
@Eric and @Andrew - will there be a Kindle integration down the line? I would love to share readings from books!
@Bosefina Thanks!
In our experience, sharing your highlights from an article has been the Just-Right-sized way to share. Tweeting/pasting a quote is Too Small, and sharing a link to read the whole article is Too Much. Reading shared highlights saves you time, and you get a sense of which ideas resonated with the sender. Speedy and personal!
Reading List integration is useful for time-shifting articles as usual, and because I have a lot of friends on Highly, I'll often notice that they've already highlighted stories I've Pocketed. I can start by reading their highlights, and sometimes that's all I need to read!
Kindle integration will be great – keeping all highlights together is surely the way to go. Today, though, Amazon's not agreeable to sharing highlights outside of the Kindle universe. So "down the line" it is.
Got there on a different twitter account login. Clumsy share UI. Still, useful and something I've been after.
So I caned @covrter on the signup, then I used it all day and realised it absolutely filled a gap for my online note-taking. The ecosystem of taking notes, storing them and sharing them, then being able to go back to see just notes for X article — it all works really nicely. I bought a month of Instapaper to check out their notes and it's about 10% as useful as Highly. Kudos.
How do you interpret DotDotDot's failure (and the like) with the same project? (that is, highlighting the web with an add-on, very different from the closed-platform Genius).
@s_guigue Thanks for asking! As you note, we're not the first to try something like this (indeed we're probably 73rd or something). My interpretation:
1. Despite the built-in technology and design hurdles, talented teams keep taking this challenge on (and often "failing", although that's mighty subjective) because a big market itch remains unscratched.
2. Nobody's shipped the killer UX for social reading yet. See also: http://www.highly.co/hl/54807db6...
@s_guigue @COVRTER I enjoy Andrew and Eric's post here. Primarily because it surfaces the notion of timing, not simply design. With mobile reading in full swing, and clickbait and native advertising at an all-time high yet already feeling tired, I firmly believe that the disposition of intelligent readers is shifting to desire quality content snippets from those whom they trust. Having used the service since October, I can say it feels like these two are onto something.
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