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 <p>readingbot is a tool to publish bookmarks from your Pinboard account
 to Twitter.</p>
 <p>Our goal is to offer an intuitive and reliable paid service to
 our users.</p>
 <p>Unlike some other services which previously offered similar functionality, 
 we believe in:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>doing this one thing</li>
 <li>doing it well</li>
 <li>charging for it</li>
 </ul>
 <p>By sticking to these 3 things we believe we'll be able to keep the lights on 
 and users happy- hopefully avoiding unfortunate outcomes where we'd have to 
 sunset our operations and leave our early adopters out in the cold.</p>
 <h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">History</span></h2>
 <p>readingbot was founded in 2016 when my friend <a href="http://jonmitchell.net/about">Jon</a> lost the ability to post
 his pinboard bookmarks to Twitter.</p>
 <p>Several small scripts and sprints later, we've built a tool to help people
 easily publish curated feeds of the content they consume on Pinboard via 
 Twitter.</p>
 <h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Business Model</span></h2>
 <p>It costs us money to run the site.  Our current operating costs are $75/month* just
 to prototype the site, and we believe these costs will scale as our userbase grows.</p>
 <p>We are uninterested in taking outside money to run this service and we don't want to foot the bill for running
 this service ourselves.</p>
 <p>So we're bootstrapping and charging our users a monthly or yearly fee.</p>
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 ### We might cost less in the future, no promises

 <span style='color:red'>should we really write thie?</span>

 Currently we can't afford the capital expenditure for dedicated hosting 
 like [some of the more established bookmark players](https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/), 
 so we need to rely on cloud hosting and recouperate our costs on a monthly basis instead of offering 
 a one-time fee.

 In the future, we might explore new pricing options as we iteratively 
 engineer lower cost hosting infrastructure solutions.

 ### Giving back

 <span style='color:red'>should we really write thie?</span>

 We also care a lot about content and the people who make it, so we intend
 to give our users the option of including extra funds which will be 
 dedicated to compensating authors of great content on the web.

 -->

 <h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Technology</span></h2>
 <p>readingbot is written in Python on the backend.  The front-end is pretty
 straightforward Bootstrap and React.js.  We use PostgreSQL for data 
 storage, celery for the distributed task queue, and are currently hosted 
 on Heroku for the time being.</p>
 <h3><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">We won't track you</span></h3>
 <p>While we might have a little page bloat as a single page app, we don't 
 include any tracking plugins of any sort in our JavaScript.</p>
 <p>We believe that our users are living, breathing human beings 
 who can provide us with valuable feedback directly rather than 
 data points feeding into our KPIs and OKRs.</p>
 <h3><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Single page app design, really?</span></h3>
 <p><code>¯\_(ツ)_/¯</code> It's 2016 and we're hip and young.</p>
 <p>Our UI is meant to be interactive and work well across a lot 
 of form-factors.  It isn't something people will want to archive
 or interact without javascript.</p>
 <p>If you feel very burdened by this design choice there is 
 an underlying REST API which I am happy to document.</p>
 <p>We are very concerned about promoting open web standards as
 technologists but we also believe in using the right tool for
 the job, sometimes to the detriment of overall page size.</p>
 <h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Financials</span></h2>
 <p>We aim for transparency around our costs and business operations.
 You can find our financials <a href="">here</a>.</p>
 <h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Who are you guys?</span></h2>
 <p>We're 3 white dudes in California.</p>
 <p><a href="">Morgan</a> is pretty good at quake 3 and a socialist.  He's also a pretty stellar technologist.</p>
 <p><a href="">Jon</a> is an ex-rabbi and burns men in his day job.  He also likes reading and writing things a lot, sometimes on the web.</p>
 <p><a href="http://mvv.io">Michael</a> is a semi-employed engineer and software "entrepreneur," but you probably guessed that already.</p>
 <p>Drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you.</p>
 <h1><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Contact</span></h1>
 <p>You can always reach us at <code>[email protected]</code>.</p>
 <hr>
 <ol>
 <li>Heroku Postgres  - $60/month</li>
 <li>S3 Hosting       - $2/month</li>
 <li>API dynos        - $20-100/mo</li>
 <li>Task queue dynos - $20-100/mo</li>
 </ol>

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	<p>readingbot is a tool to publish bookmarks from your Pinboard account
	to Twitter.</p>
	<p>Our goal is to offer an intuitive and reliable paid service to
	our users.</p>
	<p>Unlike some other services which previously offered similar functionality,
	we believe in:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>doing this one thing</li>
	<li>doing it well</li>
	<li>charging for it</li>
	</ul>
	<p>By sticking to these 3 things we believe we'll be able to keep the lights on
	and users happy- hopefully avoiding unfortunate outcomes where we'd have to
	sunset our operations and leave our early adopters out in the cold.</p>
	<h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">History</span></h2>
	<p>readingbot was founded in 2016 when my friend <a href="http://jonmitchell.net/about">Jon</a> lost the ability to post
	his pinboard bookmarks to Twitter.</p>
	<p>Several small scripts and sprints later, we've built a tool to help people
	easily publish curated feeds of the content they consume on Pinboard via
	Twitter.</p>
	<h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Business Model</span></h2>
	<p>It costs us money to run the site. Our current operating costs are $75/month* just
	to prototype the site, and we believe these costs will scale as our userbase grows.</p>
	<p>We are uninterested in taking outside money to run this service and we don't want to foot the bill for running
	this service ourselves.</p>
	<p>So we're bootstrapping and charging our users a monthly or yearly fee.</p>
	<!--

	### We might cost less in the future, no promises

	<span style='color:red'>should we really write thie?</span>

	Currently we can't afford the capital expenditure for dedicated hosting
	like [some of the more established bookmark players](https://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/going_colo/),
	so we need to rely on cloud hosting and recouperate our costs on a monthly basis instead of offering
	a one-time fee.

	In the future, we might explore new pricing options as we iteratively
	engineer lower cost hosting infrastructure solutions.

	### Giving back

	<span style='color:red'>should we really write thie?</span>

	We also care a lot about content and the people who make it, so we intend
	to give our users the option of including extra funds which will be
	dedicated to compensating authors of great content on the web.

	-->

	<h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Technology</span></h2>
	<p>readingbot is written in Python on the backend. The front-end is pretty
	straightforward Bootstrap and React.js. We use PostgreSQL for data
	storage, celery for the distributed task queue, and are currently hosted
	on Heroku for the time being.</p>
	<h3><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">We won't track you</span></h3>
	<p>While we might have a little page bloat as a single page app, we don't
	include any tracking plugins of any sort in our JavaScript.</p>
	<p>We believe that our users are living, breathing human beings
	who can provide us with valuable feedback directly rather than
	data points feeding into our KPIs and OKRs.</p>
	<h3><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Single page app design, really?</span></h3>
	<p><code>¯\_(ツ)_/¯</code> It's 2016 and we're hip and young.</p>
	<p>Our UI is meant to be interactive and work well across a lot
	of form-factors. It isn't something people will want to archive
	or interact without javascript.</p>
	<p>If you feel very burdened by this design choice there is
	an underlying REST API which I am happy to document.</p>
	<p>We are very concerned about promoting open web standards as
	technologists but we also believe in using the right tool for
	the job, sometimes to the detriment of overall page size.</p>
	<h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Financials</span></h2>
	<p>We aim for transparency around our costs and business operations.
	You can find our financials <a href="">here</a>.</p>
	<h2><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Who are you guys?</span></h2>
	<p>We're 3 white dudes in California.</p>
	<p><a href="">Morgan</a> is pretty good at quake 3 and a socialist. He's also a pretty stellar technologist.</p>
	<p><a href="">Jon</a> is an ex-rabbi and burns men in his day job. He also likes reading and writing things a lot, sometimes on the web.</p>
	<p><a href="http://mvv.io">Michael</a> is a semi-employed engineer and software "entrepreneur," but you probably guessed that already.</p>
	<p>Drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you.</p>
	<h1><span style="color:rgb(60, 116, 241)">Contact</span></h1>
	<p>You can always reach us at <code>[email protected]</code>.</p>
	<hr>
	<ol>
	<li>Heroku Postgres - $60/month</li>
	<li>S3 Hosting - $2/month</li>
	<li>API dynos - $20-100/mo</li>
	<li>Task queue dynos - $20-100/mo</li>
	</ol>

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