rinnku

To start with I emailed TechCrunch. I was 99% sure they'd ignore me (bookmarking isnt sexy I guess) but I had to try right?

After 3 days with no reply I posted "review my site" posts HackerNews/Reddit and asked people at KillerStartUps, Lifehacker, feedmyapp, thenextweb, mashable as well as others to review my site.

I got most hits from thestartupfoundry.com (people linking to my site from my responses to other peoples posts), Reddit (launch post) and feedmyapp.com (site review)

Good points - thanks for the help.

I used the captcha to avoid having robots sign up but then maybe that is overkill?

As someone living in a foreign country I have ocassionally dealt with racist behaviour so I'm aware of the pain it can cause.

I have to say that the thought of the name being racist never entered my head - I was just looking for a cool name and though rinnku looked good and would be easy to remember.

I apologize from the bottom of my heart for any pain I have caused.

I dont understand - why is it racist??

I took the phonetic version of the Japanese word for link (rinku) and added an extra n - http://translate.google.com/#auto|ja|link.

When Rinnku.com launched our intention was to bridge the gap between community news and social bookmarking (Digg + Delicious if you will).

In the six weeks since launch we’ve had some success. In particular over 18,000 links have been imported from Delicious.com by users who needed a more modern bookmarking experience.

However feedback from our users has shown we missed the mark. They don’t want or need another community news site.

So after crying in a corner for a while we went back to our users and asked - well what do you want? They told us they wanted a bookmarking service that’s effortless to use - "something that just works".

And that’s what we’re building. We’ve simplified the UI to make finding your links easier and quicker, enabled 1 click saving of links, added more help for new users and committed ourselves to creating the best bookmarking service in the universe.

I'd love to hear your comments.

Yeah I like the Instapaper instant save - might borrow that concept :)

Funny I have been thinking about hiding/de-emphasizing the social stuff on my site. I thought it was a good idea when I added it. But now I'm thinking that people have so many options when looking for new links that when it comes to their own bookmarks - thats all they want to see.

Wow I didnt know that. I've been using the chrome bookmarklet and it seems to work OK.

One day after we launch a new social bookmarking and community news site - http://www.rinnku.com - and Yahoo calls it quits!

The cowards... :)