Exactly one year ago, today, Gimme Bar
was born.
Gimme Bar has been the focus of my work for that entire time, and I haven't
blogged about it
(much).
Ironically (sort of), I've been far too busy working on Gimme Bar to
do much writing about Gimme Bar, but I thought it fitting to take a
couple minutes to write a few words about it today.
The elevator pitch for the project goes something like this: Gimme
Bar is a personal utility to help you capture and collect interesting things you
find in your day-to-day use of the Web.
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As mentioned in a previous post, we started building Gimme Bar a little over a year ago. We did a lot of things right, but we also did some things wrong. Since—in those early days—I was the only developer, and since most of my profe... Read Post