Ask HN: Please review our startup: historious
historious is basically a search engine for sites you have bookmarked. Think of it as a cross between delicious and google, you bookmark something and the entire content of the page becomes searchable. It's at http://historio.us/ I have posted it here once before, and you guys were very helpful, giving a deluge of very good suggestions. Right now I'd like to ask for your opinion on the pricing model. Our model right now is a free option, which has a limit of 1000 bookmarks for a month, and then it becomes unlimited. This is to avoid people coming in, importing their 20,000 bookmarks and leaving, never to return. There are also some extra features here: http://historio.us/pricing/ The main problem, and what we'd like your feedback on, is that every bookmark a user adds is expensive, as we have to store the entire page. Right now the service is profitable, but we'd like to improve it so we
Why it failed
historious is basically a search engine for sites you have bookmarked. Think of it as a cross between delicious and google, you bookmark something and the entire content of the page becomes searchable. It's at http://historio.us/ I have posted it here once before, and you guys we
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- stavros
- Ended
- 2010
- Source
- hackernews