About
Pinboard is a bookmarking website for introverted people in a hurry.
The focus of the site is less on socializing, and more on speed and utility. The goals of the site, in order of priority, are:
- Never lose data
- Be ridiculously fast
- Offer useful features
Our users pay a one-time signup fee that goes up by a small amount with each new signup. In return, they get a fast, spam-free service and prompt support.
Pinboard also offers an archiving feature, at a cost of $25/year. Archival accounts will store a complete cached copy of every bookmark you save, and enable full-text search for your account, so you can search pages by content. (The one-time signup fee counts towards your first year's subscription.)
History
I wrote Pinboard in the spring of 2009 as a personal project, partly out of frustration with a redesign of Delicious that I felt removed a lot of utility from the site, and partly because I had long wanted to have a bookmarking site that would archive my bookmarks. I invited volunteers to test the site in June of 2009, and started offering paid accounts in July.
The service has stored about 45 million bookmarks as of January 2012, and has just over 20 thousand active users.
Technology
Pinboard is written in PHP and Perl. The site uses MySQL for data storage, Sphinx for search, and Amazon S3 to store backups. There is absolutely nothing interesting about the Pinboard architecture or implementation; I consider that a feature!
Contact
You can reach me by email at support@pinboard.in, or as Pinboard on Twitter.
Feature requests and general discussion are welcome at the Google discussion group.