[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built Multy - Generate a short URL to sha...
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Show HN: I built Multy - Generate a short URL to share a list of
websites
Author : Etheon
Score : 40 points
Date : 2021-01-22 10:52 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.multy.me)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.multy.me)
| jamescampbell wrote:
| I would love a browser add-on to go with this to gather up the
| links as you browse. I used to do this with mailephant (now
| defunct) that allowed me to queue up links and snippets of text
| related to links in a nice list to email along with an email
| template. good work and definitely useful.
| jstrieb wrote:
| You might be looking for something like One-Tab.[1] In addition
| to saving groups of tabs, you can share links to the groups of
| tabs. That being said, it may not 100% fit your use-case.
|
| For reference, the original author did a Show HN when they
| released One-Tab.[2]
|
| [1]: https://www.one-tab.com/
|
| [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356823
| jamescampbell wrote:
| I just tried it out and it works. https://multy.me/l3uepo
| Etheon wrote:
| Hey that's a great idea!
|
| I never built an add-on for a browser so it will make a good
| challenge. Maybe for this week-end ^^
| jamescampbell wrote:
| Yeah its not that bad, here is a simple bookmarklet example
| that grabs current url and posts it to your endpoint
| (mailephant in this case). Might be a good first step.
| javascript:q=location.href;if(document.getSelection)%7Bd=docu
| ment.getSelection();%7Delse%7Bd='';%7D;p=document.title;void(
| open('https://mailephant.email/views/curate.html?showtags=yes
| &url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURICompone
| nt(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Mailephant','toolbar=n
| o,scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=700'));
| jamescampbell wrote:
| You just save that as a new bookmark after updated your
| endpoint and you can gather that data quickly.
| Etheon wrote:
| Thank you for the tips! I will definitely try that this
| week end and keep you updated.
| gnicholas wrote:
| Pretty cool; reminds me of Insight Browser's multiple tab
| behavior. [1] For example, the browser has a functionality that
| when you load HN, it automatically opens the first few links in
| separate tabs.
|
| I don't know if there's enough overlap in what you do that you
| could work with them (maybe via deep linking with fallback?), but
| it'd be interesting! They're a cool group of founders (YC W19, I
| think), and their extensible mobile browser is now my go-to on
| iOS.
|
| 1: https://insightbrowser.com/
| Etheon wrote:
| Thanks! And yes this is interesting.
|
| For a few days now I've been thinking about an API system
| allowing users to create lists directly, without going through
| Multy. With a POST that would return a unique link to a JSON.
| This would allow people to integrate their own system to their
| site/application. If I had to monetize a part of Multy, maybe
| it would be this API, I don't know what you think?
| ljf wrote:
| Looks great. Congratulations on getting it out so fast. I wish I
| had your drive (and skills).
|
| What is your plan to deal with spam or abuse of the service?
| Etheon wrote:
| Good question and right now I don't have an answer... I thought
| about checking a blacklist before create any list but I had
| trouble to find a good domain blacklist.
|
| We can always handle spam with checking IP / number of requests
| but it's easy to say ;)
| adambware wrote:
| I use a Chrome Extension called OneTab that allows me to collapse
| all of my tabs into a list. You can also "Share as webpage" but
| the design leaves a lot to be desired. Congrats on the project!
| Etheon wrote:
| Thank you :) Didn't know OneTab but it looks really useful for
| a guy like me with 100 open tabs.
|
| I will check if I can create my own browser extension!
| Etheon wrote:
| Hello HN :)
|
| For the record, I learned how to code less than 2 years ago, next
| to my full time job.
|
| I rarely have the time to complete a side project, so I
| challenged myself to make a functional website in a weekend.
|
| The idea was simple, to be able to create a short URL to share a
| list of websites. It's not revolutionary, but I was surprised not
| to find more sites to do that. Bit.ly had such a system a few
| years ago called "Bundles", which they shut down.
|
| I often see interesting lists on Twitter or in articles, but
| keeping track of all this is sometimes complicated. That's where
| I got the idea.
|
| So I created Multy over a weekend and was thrilled to see that I
| could make a functional site, no matter how small, in such a
| short period of time.
|
| I still have a lot of ideas to improve it, such as adding private
| links, or a very simple statistics system. I would like as much
| as possible not to create an authentication system and keep the
| concept as simple as possible. I haven't necessarily thought
| about monetization, but there may be some ideas! I didn't create
| it to make a fortune anyway.
|
| I would like to have your opinion on its current version, and on
| the evolutions I could bring to it.
|
| Thank you for reading me and taking the time to test Multy!
| kybernetikos wrote:
| This looks perfect for remote learning. Teachers typically have
| a bunch of resources that they want to use for the class
| they're teaching, and sometimes their link is going to be in
| printed material that the student will have to type in. This
| seems like a nice solution to that problem.
|
| Currently I use bit.ly for this, but it means generating lots
| of links. What is helpful on bit.ly is the bookmarklet. Being
| able to add a link to a bundle from a bookmarklet would be
| quite nice if you haven't done it already.
| Etheon wrote:
| This is something I didn't think about but you're absolutely
| right. I need to find a solution to edit the list. In your
| example, if a teacher want to add something in the middle of
| the year or update a website, it would be useful.
|
| If I don't want to add an authentication system, maybe with a
| token...
| tux1968 wrote:
| This is such a great idea. So much nicer to include a single link
| at the bottom of a comment for all mentioned references. For that
| usage it might be nice to be able to refer to each link as say
| [1], [2], [3] and have those numbers also show up in the multi-
| link page.
| Etheon wrote:
| Thank you :)
|
| So for example multy.me/xXere-1 and you'll be able to go
| directly to the link?
| tux1968 wrote:
| Sorry, I didn't do a great job explaining what I meant.
| Really just comes down to having each link on the multi-link
| page listed with a number beside its title.
|
| --- Typically[1] i'll put numbers inline[2] for each
| reference I make[3]. And then at the bottom of the comment
| just list them as so:
|
| [1] www.typical.com
|
| [2] www.inline.com
|
| [3] www.make.com
|
| ---
|
| But if I replace the listed references with a single link at
| the bottom of the page to your site:
| References can be found here: https://multy.me/M9MU0A
|
| Then it would be nice if the individual numbers (1,2,and 3)
| were obvious on that linked page beside each reference. But
| it's not a huge difference, it was just an initial thought
| when I first tried out your site. It's still useful even
| without numbered links, and I can't guess how many people
| would use them.
| Etheon wrote:
| Ok I understand! Easier than I thought ;) Being able to
| have numbered links is definitely something I can do. I'll
| add that to my to-do list! It could be an option, not
| necessarily visible by default.
| d33lio wrote:
| Any plans to open source?
| Etheon wrote:
| Well as it's one of my first "big" project as a developper, it
| can be scary, but my github project is public
| https://github.com/Etheonor/multy.me
|
| Feel free to check it and I will be happy to have some feedback
| on my code. Since I'm self-taught, I'm sure I make big
| mistakes!
| jamescampbell wrote:
| In my experience, every developer that I hired self-taught
| was 10x better at solving problems and getting things done
| themselves than traditionally taught.
| Etheon wrote:
| I heard that a lot, but the impostor syndrome is always
| strong when you didn't do anything publicly before!
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