June 2, 2007

Welcome to hystry

Have you ever returned to a slashdot/digg/reddit thread and wished you could easily tell apart the new comments since you last checked it? Or written a comment only to forget to check if others replied to you? hystry.com is for you.



The story so far. We have put up:

  • A browser plugin to send your browser history to hystry.com.
  • The inbox page where you get notified when a page gets updated.
  • Algorithms to highlight updates to a page since you last visited it.
  • This blog. Settling on blogging software took longer than all the above combined. Tumblr is easily the most painless blog-hosting solution around. The killer feature: custom domain names.

One overarching goal of hystry has been to make it as painless to try as possible. In keeping with this, there is no registration process; just bookmark your own private inbox link. To get a new account just go to hystry.com for a new inbox. To delete your browser history with us, simply uninstall the hystry extension. That is all!



This is just our initial solution to these problems, and we have some ideas to improve it. But the plan is to stay loose and see how you like it. So try it! And tell us!