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Pocket Explore — A human curated version of the web
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Congrats @nateweiner and team! Been waiting for you guys to do this for awhile. Wishing you guys a lot of luck
Absolutely love it! Well done @nateweiner and the team, it's a brilliant extension to a fantastic product!
@nateweiner Will explore be available on iOS and Android as well or only a web feature for now?
@jpshells - Just on web to start (though mobile web works). Big updates to our iOS and Android apps are coming soon as well. We're always testing new stuff on our Betas which you should get on if you aren't already!
iOS: http://getpocket.com/beta/ios
Android: http://getpocket.com/beta/android
I have been a paid Pocket user for years. This is a very good initiative. I would also like to see more curation and AI for sorting in bookmarks I have saved for years.
@camillebesse Certainly not the plan. But those examples highlight a big problem we see with content today: Everyone calls it news, completely ignoring the massive amount of incredible content that is buried by news.
I'm super interested in Space, but trying to satisfy my curiosity in the Space subreddit, I generally don't find something, just a few pictures and news stories. It's really hard today in all of these experiences to get past the front-page/last few days.
We're trying to create a channel where the really high quality stuff that deserves your time attention, even a few weeks or months later, can thrive.
This is awesome. I miss the days of having a few go-to sources of news/reading. Hoping that Pocket can be it :)
Pretty cool idea. Only the best of the web makes it to Pocket, and why not open that up in some curated form...brilliant idea. I'm already loving the "Startup" collection.
My only gripe with Pocket is that the web version can still be a bit better...a global setting to read in Pocket or jump straight to the original content would help enormously, since the embedded links on that content when read in Pocket doesn't properly take us to the target sometime and that annoys. Other than that it's so great.
Hi Nate, this new product looks super exciting for long-time Pocket users like me!
While I'm here... one thing I've found with your recommendation emails is that they seem to be very US-focused. As a Brit living in France, US stories are a little less relevant to me, as my reading history would probably suggest. I would love to see some kind of geo-filtering to a little less US-bias in the recommendations! But apart from that, thanks for bringing such a fantastic product to market and kudos to all your product and design teams for keeping everything so fabulously beautiful and simple.
This is pretty awesome.
I'd be lost on Medium if I didnt have options to explore. Now bringing me in to explore on @Pocket - nice
Where it asks for my interest I'd love to have some pre-populated general ones to get me started
Congrats on the launch 🚀 @nateweiner ! I am using Pocket since several years now and this new feature will definitely help the experience. 👏
But sadly, I still have problems to read all the articles I save in Pocket 😭
@mrcalexandre Thanks! We have a lot coming to help you solve that problem too. Stay tuned!
@nateweiner You're welcome, I am a happy user and I don't know what I would do without Pocket.
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me ! 😊 It means a lot 👏
I look forward to hear more 😃
I've dabbled with Pocket for more than a few times and always love Pocket hits. Always something interesting to read/look at! @nateweiner
Hey gang - I'm the founder/CEO @ Pocket and here to answer any questions about the new releases and Pocket in general. (And thanks @benln for sharing this!)
Everyday, millions of people on Pocket are saving and reading what’s interesting to them – helping us build an impressive library of over 3 billion saves that surfaces a unique and truly human view of what’s good on the web.
Today, for the first time, we're opening up our understanding of great content and making it so that anyone can search and discover the very best of the Web, on any topic.
This is a major step forward in our vision for Pocket and our ability to increase the quality of content on the web. Excited to finally have this first iteration of it out there!
Here are some example pages from Explore to check out:
Westworld - https://getpocket.com/explore/we... (warning: possible spoilers)
Urban Design - https://getpocket.com/explore/ur...
Self Driving Cars - https://getpocket.com/explore/se...
Please share your favorite searches! -- And the ones that could be improved too :)
More backstory on everything we're launching here:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3064...
@nateweiner Been a Pocket user for years, lovely to see the changes you guys are making. Pretty good UX so far as well. Keep up the great work!
@nateweiner I LOVE LOVE LOVE Pocket. Thank you for being SO disciplined and committed to keeping the app so simple & so effective on what it is really meant to do. Your team has *always* optimized for what really matters for the mindset a user is in when he or she uses the product. Congrats on the launch of new features.
@nateweiner I use pocket on a daily basis, now don't know what I would do without it. Love this new concept of making a curated search corpus - this could be the future direction of search engines.
@nateweiner @benln Would it be possible for you to tell me how to find Pocket on Chrome (in mobile)? Have been struggling with this for quite some time now. I'm not able to find the Pocket icon anywhere on my mobile chrome window.
Amazing! I really loved the trending tag on articles I save in pocket, and now I can explore all articles with trending tag!!
I think if I can subscribe to a topic, and have it shown in my main feed would be awesome!
I have a question for you:
What do you advice someone working on an app/service for news aggregation?
note that it is not a comparator for pocket in any way :p
@firasalmanna Excited that you like it! Biggest issues I see with content these days are:
1) Noise -- Way too much stuff and the experiences we have today require the user to do a lot of browsing, flipping, scanning, scrolling to try to find good stuff.
2) Silo'd personalization -- Most services only see a fraction of a user's activity across the web (or other apps) so they never really have a true view of what a user is interested in.
3) Fixed personalization -- Picking topics sucks because it's either too broad or too niche and for it to work well you have to constantly manage/prune it. Using social isn't great as content is inherently a very personal thing, and while your friends can help bring serendipity to your experience (ie content you wouldn't have seen otherwise), what your friends are interested in doesn't = what you are interested in.
4) Low quality data - Most are built on top of bad data, for example just pulling the most liked or tweeted content, which isn't a good signal or indicator of quality or worthiness (See: http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/1...). If you are aggregating bad, noisy content, you will get bad, noisy content on the other end.
Find a way to be unique and tackle 1 or more of those problems. :)
What's your take on Facebook save feature? If Facebook launches a separate app just like Pocket? What would differentiate Poker from them? (I don't use it as much, but it's pretty similar)
Wait you mean it's not curated by AI and bots?!?!?!!! 😏
Love this @nateweiner...congrats 👏
@andrewett I too am skeptical if this doesn't have an AI & deep machine learning chat bot then HOW does it work? 😱
Nir and Far