Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. Though there are parallels in the medium we use, the products are quite different. We do quick, private sharing with friends - not public commenting.

Their website was down but I found it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/words/lgdfecngaioi...

"No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun \ It's never what you do, but how it's done"

- Nas

Indeed, but what is different about your take on this idea that has failed many times in the past, apart from slick UI?

Thanks Tangokat, We've heard this a bunch. Just for my notes, what keyboard are you using and what is the shortcut on that keyboard?

Was using DA. The shortcut would be Alt Gr + 2 (so the right side alt key).

Thanks! Feel free to point us @Point Team when you're on the app. Would love to hear further feedback.

Hey HN, my friends and I have been working on this extension for the past year. For the curious, we were frustrated with using email and chat for sharing & discussing links, so we built Point.

We've seen various iterations of this over the years, but we'd love to hear what the HN community thinks about our take on it. @shwinnabego, @wannatouchmyfro, and I are here to field your comments, and questions, and feedback!

It's pretty cool. Congrats on your effort. On suggestion, you can make it more less memory intensive. On my MBP/Chrome, my fan started blowing at full speed while I was using Point. I compared the webpage's memory footprint with and without the extension and the difference is huge. 109MB vs 60MB for my personal webpage. It's even more on the verge example.

Thanks a lot. What did you use to determine this? I am using Chrome inspector's heap allocation profiler and not noticing this difference. We're very interested in fixing this!

Hi, I used the Chrome task manager (Under more tools) to check the memory usage on the page with/without the extension. Perhaps the profiler can give you more info.