The link saver with no backup yet

The startup idea

The problem

A saved post lives in the app that showed it, and a new phone has none of them.

Who would pay for this?

Primary

Someone who saves posts and then cannot find them.

Secondary

A person on Android or iOS who will use the share menu.

Early adopter

One share, one folder, the backup marked not yet.

How could it make money?

Possible models. Nothing here is a claim about what Bookmarks charges.

• No price on the post.
• The LICENSE is the Expo template.
• The APK is a GitHub release.

What would the MVP look like?

1. Share menu in.
2. Local SQLite.
3. No cloud account.
4. Backup labeled planned.

How to validate the idea

• Ask five people whether a new phone had their links.
• If it did, the backup shipped.
• Do not treat a saved title as the page.

How to differentiate

• It stays on the device.
• No new account.
• Backup is not in v1.
• Do not become a read-later service with a server.

Product that inspired this idea

Nagraj's post says a simple Android app for saving and organizing links from Instagram, X, Tumblr, and more. The repository is nagraj05/bookmarks. The readme says Android and iOS, with a local SQLite database and no cloud account. Save comes from the share menu. Backup and restore are planned and are not in the first release. Fetching a link's title and image needs the network. Offline access to a saved link does not keep the page itself. The LICENSE file is the Expo template, copyright 2015-present 650 Industries, not the author. The post names Android and three apps. It does not mention iOS, the missing backup, or the Expo license. This page did not save a link.

Posted by @14ms124. Watch the original launch. No separate product site is listed unless the post itself is the source.

• android
• links

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