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What’s/When’s the catch?

I and perhaps many of the co.mments.com users are very pleased with this service. May I ask on the behalf of other curious users: what is the catch? And when will it come?

Posted by coconut in General on Friday, July 21st, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 Responses to “What’s/When’s the catch?”

  1. Ralph

    July 21st, 2006 at 5:27 am

    What do you mean with “catch”? Do you mean, if this will be a pay-for-service in the future?

  2. coconut

    July 21st, 2006 at 8:33 am

    Yes, Ralph. That’s what I mean.

  3. Assaf

    July 21st, 2006 at 9:09 am

    I’m glad you like it.

    I created co.mments because I needed a better way to track comments, and no one else was doing it. I developed it for myself without any plans to charge for it.

    And I plan to keep it that way. No hidden agenda.

    I recently opened the co.mments API, so I no longer own your data. You can take it out and use it in other services if you want.

    I’m even releasing pieces of the co.mments code as open source (check out my personal blog). I’d like other people to build more services like co.mments.

    The service is free, and the data is free. And it will stay that way.

  4. coconut

    July 21st, 2006 at 9:11 am

    Assaf,

    This is mighty generous of you. You sound like a Linux kinda guy, where everyone helps each other.

  5. Ozy

    July 24th, 2006 at 5:11 pm

    Co.mments is very useful for me. Those impulsive comments I make here and there are now tracked magically, and that’s one less thing for me to think about. It is mighty generous of you indeedy. Thanks.

  6. coconut

    July 24th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    This idea may not be possible at this time, but rather than having to press a bookmarklet, won’t it be cool if somehow the computer/OS/browser/etc could automatically know when we’re adding comments and automatically add it to some list.

  7. Assaf

    July 25th, 2006 at 8:56 am

    Ozy,

    I’m glad you like it, you’re in good company.

    coconut,

    That’s another reason to have an API, so it will be easy to write this.

  8. Mike Rohde

    October 4th, 2006 at 7:47 am

    Assaf, thanks for offering this tool to us all. I appreciate the service and your generosity in sharing freely with everyone. :-)

  9. Assaf

    October 4th, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    You’re welcome, Mike.

  10. bug

    November 5th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    I just wanted to thank you as well. Very nice service, and very appreciated.

  11. David Gómez-Rosado

    January 28th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    I wonder… How this service differs from http://coComments.com? Any benefits of feature comparison? Thanks!

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