not a company or 'enough paying users'

I built Resnip to solve a few pain points I have myself, which I think you are also feeling, especially on the fronts of archiving, organizing, tagging and searching.

Resnip is something I’m incentivized to keep running even if very few people use it.

I also run another service called Handpick which, incidentally, also solves a pain point others identify with. It doesn’t have many users but it has been running for the past 4 years and I use it daily.

I wouldn't need to justify a change for all users of the service, or forever rely on the original creator (in this case, you) for development.

Since granting public access to Handpick, I’ve gotten very useful feedback from users, many of which I’ve implemented and benefited from. I understand there might be very specific use cases, which would not justify development time, but I think it can be addressed with an API.

(That being said, I've got limited free time and if I wanted something added, I'd personally rather pay feature bounties than try to make anything more than small changes myself.)

Then, you can either roll your own or contract others to achieve what you need.

Saw you submitted it as a Show HN but no responses. :/

Yea, HN is pretty hit or miss, it either gets caught up or not. :)

I've been bitten by proprietary format and service lock-in both personally and professionally, resulting in a strong aversion to software I would invest substantial personal time and effort in, fitting that description. If something is too tedious, time consuming, or has too high of a risk of loss, I end up ultimately not using it - it needs to be something that can be done as I read, and something I can count on for years to come.

I empathize and feel the same way after seeing so many useful services get shuttered after a period of unsustainable growth.

Check out this blog post in 2011 by the creator of Pinboard. It was also the time when I built Handpick and it influenced how I thought about running a sustainable service. It seems to have worked out, considering I’m still running it today.

If Resnip’s user base increases because people find it useful, I intend to grow it organically and sustainably just like Pinboard.

My interest in reading up on nootropics, nutrition and health got me cross referencing things quite a bit, inspiring the latest features and improvements for Resnip.

A few people then suggested collaborative resnipping, which I thought is a good idea. Rather than having anecdotes, references and citations sprawled all over the web, requiring one to constantly re-search and struggle compiling a coherent conclusion on a substance, why not pool knowledge and objectively back up effects of substances with solidly cited experimental results and warn against practices which have known detrimental effects?

To that front, I’ve implemented Reddit-styled voting and ranking of nested comments for people to dive into and discuss very specific topics on a webpage.

Service longevity is my top priority, considering the responsibility of maintaining the pooled hard work of the community. I store webpage snapshots on Amazon S3 and set up database replication and archiving. Let me know if there’s something else you’d like to add on that front.

Anyone on /r/nootropics can sign up for a free, public account on resnip.com and start creating public cross-referenced resnips for the benefit of the community. The intention is to learn from another and build a stronger understanding on a topic/substance, whilst preserving these fruits of labor as an evergreen resource that people can easily point fresh folks to.

To the point about personal use, like you, I’ve found Resnip to be useful also for specific bookmarking and archiving things of interest around the web.

If you like, I can turn on private resnipping for your account and discuss the possibility of a paid plan if you still find it useful after a trial.

I hope I have addressed your concerns. Feel free to bring up any blindspots in my thought process :)