![]() ![]() Home screen, before (left) and after (right). (I plan to revamp the now-playing and individual-podcast screens in a later update.) I’m pretty proud of this one.įor this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused on the home screen, playlist screen, typography, and spacing. Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. (Edit: not trying to knock Pinterest either their actions would be completely understandable given the max potential fines.A programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. And the whole spin-out probably took some time and logistical effort, so they couldn't reasonably focus on GDPR immediately after that either. If their former owners are to blame for the long EU outage, it's understandable that Instapaper isn't going to publicly call them out - they may even have agreements preventing this. The "Instapaper must be up to something sketchy if GDPR compliance took so long" narrative here seems pretty unfair. Large parent companies are very worried about those worst-case fines and want to ensure there's no risk whatsoever. This is speculation, but I've seen this GDPR fear play out elsewhere. Also explains why they'd spin it out - GDPR changed the calculus. Most likely, Pinterest's lawyers and executives were not OK with risking the fines, and also did not want to devote enough development resources to GDPR compliance for such a small subsidiary like Instapaper. Instapaper was owned by Pinterest until being spun off very recently. The max fines are based on the top-level parent company's global revenue. When i've observed problems like this before it seems that eventually a large open source project comes along and kills the markets chance of generating any money, and read-it-later services seem to fit in that fuzzily-defined-in-my-head-only market segment. I've been thinking about the space a LOT and started to try and develop some pieces of software that eventually I hope people will be able to stitch together into something great. AI & Scraping development (Most services are poor in their offerings here, not sure its this) ![]() Talent (doubt it's this all the teams seem to be extremely small teams)ģ. Scale (Syncing all that multimedia must be expensive)Ģ. + Even more people want text-extraction (and boy-oh-boy this is hard)ġ. + Most people require a TTS service of sorts The ability to facilitate "archiving a webpage" seems to be simple, but read-it-later software needs to be more than that to the modern internet user it seems. Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard seem to be the only valid players. Read-it-later software seems surprisingly hard to monetize given how few are in the space. and last but not least, our goal is to establish a small, but profitable company to keep the project alive! Besides the technical aspects, our new business plan will make sure that we're thinking ahead and that we're never caught off guard by something like the GDPR again. Quality assurance will be our top priority. support new devices/OS updates as they come out), but no major new features. Our apps will see ongoing development to improve compatibility (eg. Whatever textual content you find on the web, with Instapaper you can save it for distraction free reading, now or later. Besides blog posts and news articles, we hope to improve text extraction from PDFs, slide decks or even twitter threads. We're working on making text extraction even more reliable. Instapaper will continue to work just the way you've grown to like it, and we're not planning to change stuff around. We're planning no new user visible features. Since they don't seem to bother actually sharing their ten year plan, let me share what I want their ten year plan to be: ![]()
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