#channelkit

Here are translated excerpts from Nina's interview.

Is Channelkit a Pinterest clone or an improved del.icio.us? Does the fate of del.icio.us after the Yahoo acquisition worry you?

Pinterest is primarily for visual information and moodboards consisting of images of clothes, interiors etc. Our users collect links to articles, websites, videos. We're more about what's behind the link, rather than the image representing it. I'd say we're more of a work instrument, while Pinterest is more for entertainment. 

Del.icio.us is definitely closer, but it couldn't solve the problem of structuring information. We are offering what we thing is a a useful instrument to do it, and a sufficient amount of organizing tools. And yes, we are visual.

How does Channelkit plan to make money?

Existing features of Channelkit are free and will remain free. In a few months we will be adding additional premium features, enabling teams to jointly collect and organize links for project work.

What are your short term business goals – user growth or something else? What are your long term goals?

Good news: Channelkit raised funding from the Untitled VC

Channelkit Users

Rajnish is a Scientist at the Dept. of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University. Through his research work he developed a strong interest in nutrition and healthy food options. He is now working on creating a unique technology to discover food that is grown locally.

I am now doing substantial research on nutrition and food: I collect reports and papers on the science of food, which I would eventually want to share with my comments, save links and contact information of food producers, food brands, grocery retailers and restaurants which carry local products. I meet with farmers, restaurant owners and book authors. I’d like to build a central resource of food information and promote marketing and sales of local, healthy food for a sustainable future.

I’ve gathered a lot of content over the past several years, yet I still wish there was a way to streamline the information in an efficient way. Now if I save all the information I find online as bookmarks, I have to remember the content or its relevance to find it again in my totality of bookmarks after a few years. And in order to share my food content, I will need to build a seperate resource.