Just thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this weekend.
It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone. Later Locker lets you email a link to the webpage to an email address and have it automatically appear on your computer. Sites like the http://nytimes.com or http://newegg.com are kind of annoying to view in your mobile browser. So, you send a link to the webpage from your phone and automatically appears on your desktop!
Still really rough, but would love any feedback/suggestions you guys have!
I built something similar a while back (http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ if you're curious), for iOS I found that the easiest way to set up bookmarklets is to add them on the desktop (Safari or IE) and then sync to the phone. At the time bookmarklets didn't work on Android so we ended up making a native app (I think you have to register for the "share text" intent, it's been a while).
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Hey HN,
Just thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this weekend.
It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone. Later Locker lets you email a link to the webpage to an email address and have it automatically appear on your computer. Sites like the http://nytimes.com or http://newegg.com are kind of annoying to view in your mobile browser. So, you send a link to the webpage from your phone and automatically appears on your desktop!
Still really rough, but would love any feedback/suggestions you guys have!
Using mailgun for parsing!
- Benny
Have you thought about using a bookmarklet instead of e-mail on the phone?
I've thought about it, but bookmarklets on the iPhone (not sure about android) is exceedingly annoying. Marco Arment (Instapaper founder) wrote about his experience here: http://www.marco.org/2010/10/10/an-open-enhancement-request-...
I built something similar a while back (http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ if you're curious), for iOS I found that the easiest way to set up bookmarklets is to add them on the desktop (Safari or IE) and then sync to the phone. At the time bookmarklets didn't work on Android so we ended up making a native app (I think you have to register for the "share text" intent, it's been a while).
Whoa, that looks awesome (and really good looking). Thanks for the tip :)