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?
Our main goal now is to developer a community of early adopters — users who actively collect and organize information online. And to grow this community. We managed to attract over a hundred very active users without any promotion and they've become real advocates of Channelkit, which makes us really happy. We're trying to stay in touch with them as much as we can to better understand how the product should evolve to grow further.
















