Why more than 7,500 people pay for start.me PRO
We started start.me back in 2014 as a free service. However, we also offer a paid subscription called start.me PRO. Today, there are over 7,500 people who decided to pay for a free product. Why?
How to use Markdown to markup text in start.me: Part 2
Some time ago, we posted a blog about marking up your bookmarks and notes widgets with Markdown. That blog covered the basics, such as making text bold and using a fixed-width font. In this second blog, we will continue to explore the possibilities of Markdown. We will show you how you can make use markup…
Xmarks got retired: what are your options?
Back in the old days – we are talking 2006 here – when cloud bookmarking was not yet common, a tool called Foxmarks was invented. This tool, a browser extension really, synchronized the bookmarks between your various browsers and machines. Now, 12 years later, there is an abundance of online bookmarking solutions. Foxmarks, now called…
The largest personal startpage in the world!
It is official: we are now the largest personal startpage in the world. Last week, Alexa certified us as the largest Personal Startpage service in the world, surpassing our colleagues of established sites such as Netvibes, Symbaloo, and igHome. It is a great achievement that we would like to celebrate with you, the ones that helped…
Stock Quotes widget back with some extras
Some months ago, our Stock Quotes widget stopped working. Although we generally try to fix broken features as quickly as we can, this proved to be a hard nut to crack. The problem was not as much in our code, the underlying data source was discontinued. Finally, with the help of members of the community,…
Dark theme and embedding content
Some weeks ago we published about the new Dark widget theme we added. It is being used by thousands of users already. Today we released a new (mini)feature that makes embedding content in dark themed widgets more attractive. Not all embeddable content supports a dark theme and we found a way to ‘solve’ that.
Using markdown to markup text in start.me: Part 1 – Basics
There are many features to start.me most users don’t know about. And that’s fine: that leaves something to be discovered. Today I will start a series of blogs about one of these ‘hidden’ features: Markdown. This easy to learn markup language is supported by start.me and allows you to add some extra style to your…
Dark theme for widgets
In the past weeks, we have worked on a new design, support for a dark page theme and custom theme colors. Today we continue our journey and add another customization option: dark widgets themes. This new feature, that allows you to create widgets with a dark background and white text, was a little more complicated…
Custom theme colors
Last Friday we announced the immediate launch of the new 2018 design for start.me. We received a lot of feedback. There were some compliments, but we received some complaints and requests as well. The main feedback we got was about the color of the new design. Some of our users were quite fond of the dark…
Introducing the 2018 design for start.me
The last design update to start.me has been quite a while. And that’s not a problem. Design changes are not a goal in itself. But we feel that a modern-day bookmark manager should look modern. So, we decided to update the looks of your favorite bookmarking app. We have been working on these changes for…