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Timothy here, one of the co-founders. A gift idea generator/recommender is definitely in the works. We would use the users upvotes and lists to feed into a collaborative filtering algorithm. Thanks for the pointer!

I'm Timothy, one of the founders of Discovery List. I'm really excited to be launching our site on Hacker News and over the next 24 hours, I'll be sending out invites immediately to people who request them.

I'd like this to be an Apply HN as well, so I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the business model.

A few interesting (?) points:

- we want Discovery List to be a detailed directory of everything buyable on the Internet

- we make money when people buy products through links on our site; we're putting aside 30% of this affiliate revenue for users that contribute the most

- every week, we give out $10 each to users that contribute the most; if 30% of our affiliate revenue is $10,000, we’ll give out $10 to the top 1,000 contributors.

- users that invite friends get 10% of their invited friend's Karma points

- everyone can add products and reviews and everyone has commenting access

Thanks for the suggestions and thanks even more for the illustrations too! I totally understand where you're coming from now. From your illustrations it's clear that having a few elements anchored to the bottom of the quote in fixed locations means that quotes are clearly separated. Good point.

As for the tabs, I believe we've stripped them from all the quotes. However, we do indent all paragraphs apart from the first in a similar fashion to books and long articles. Originally, we planned for people to quote much lengthier quotes (in which case it would improve readability), but I take your point that it makes it more unreadable in shorter quotes.

Thanks - I really like the categories your site has for each thing that you post. I think it'll be pretty valuable to know whether you're quoting from a tweet, a book, or a newspaper article, and not only depend on the source domain.

I'll definitely check it out - thanks for the suggestion!

Definitely in the works - part of our vision is to provide an annotation layer over the Internet. Awkward comparison, but something like the Kindle, "N people have also highlighted this passage". But for every webpage on the Internet.

A single click - point taken. Do you find yourself referring much to what you save? Do you search through them much or have the need to categorise them? Just trying to work out the different customer needs! Thanks!

Thanks for the ideas - we're going to implement some Machine-Learning Algorithms to help in clustering similar quotes together. But grouping by article like you said would also prove really useful. The point on bloggers/publishers is also good - we're looking to have Promoted Quotes which are quotes from new book from publishers. Thanks for your input!

Sorry to hear that - we'll work to introduce an alternative to Facebook login in the near future

This is really interesting. Could you go into a little more detail about what you mean by each quote appearing slightly differently. We're trying to use the break provided by the author and the tags on the RHS to separate the quotes - but I guess this isn't really working?

Thanks for your suggestions. We've tried to keep a distinct 2D feel to the website so we are avoiding drop shadows as much as possible. But I agree with you that the quotes themselves need more clearly separated from each other.

For the width of the quotes, we've tried to adhere to the 45 to 75 characters per line as recommended by by Robert Bringhurst in his "The Elements of Typographic Style", although our line lengths are towards the upper limit of that range.

Point taken on the Facebook login - will look to provide other means of logging in! Very cool video on gimmebar.com.

We were tweaking the UX for that part just before posting to HN. Thanks for the input - we'll definitely look into changing this to make it more intuitive.

Thanks! Evernote do let you save different text snippets and links but they are more geared toward "private". On QuoteRed, everything is public. We may add a private board or two later.

Looking into this right now - in Step 3, did you highlight the quote and click the "Quote It" button? Thanks for letting us know about this.

Sure thing - we're looking to integrate Twitter log in (we think that the QuoteRed userbase would somewhat overlap with Twitter's), and of course a plain login with a vanilla email/password combo. To come!

We did think of having a tiles view and overlaying the quotes over images. Knowing which images to combine quotes with may be an issue!

Not at the moment, but it's something we're keen to include. Importing from a text file seems a bit tedious, and asking people to log in with their Amazon credentials is a definite no-no. Any ideas on how best to do it?

Thanks - part of the reason for making QuoteRed is that I find it hard to share things on Facebook and Twitter without it taking over my feed. My idea for this was, by limiting what you post to unoriginal content, you would be freer to post what you really want.

I like that! Any typefaces you would propose in particular? Not sure if you noticed, but we've used two typefaces on the current version of the site: Adobe Caslon Pro and Proxima Nova.

We actually started this project at a Hackathon at Facebook HQ. We came up with the name via a quick domain search. I agree with you that quotes aren't necessarily the best term to use - maybe text snippets would be more accurate? We want to be a collection of all the interesting things people read on the Internet.

That's pretty cool. I notice you have both a public and private option for users. We're sticking to making everything public for now for network effects, but will be keen to add a private option later on, demand pending.

Thanks Daniel - so it didn't work out with Amazon? The Kindle annotation system is also part of the inspiration behind QuoteRed actually. I find it pretty useful myself.