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Comment #19344860
We do plan on creating an API that will allow users to create links, and view links through integrations, but it isn’t built currently. That’s an interesting solution for resolutio…
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Comment #19344138
It depends on each company, for example let’s say you have a link to a holiday party, you can create go/holidayparty and update that every year to the new page, or use go/holidaypa…
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Comment #19344054
That's actually a really good suggestion, thanks!
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Comment #19343684
Thanks! The functionality is definitely powerful at large scales. We want to provide a solution that companies can get started with right away, with zero setup.
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Comment #19343670
That's great! More companies need a solution like the one you've created, unfortunately, not everyone knows how to build one. There needs to be an easy way to access important link…
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Comment #19343622
Outages are definitely a risk every company encounters. Whether it's a third-party hosted solution or an internal solution, unfortunately, servers do go down. We run all our servic…
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Comment #19343557
It's all about building trust with the company. We don't store or read any information on the sites you visit, we just redirect URLs that contain "go" as the domain, and provide a …
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Comment #19343524
Pricing is always a tough thing to get right. If you look at Shopify's pricing page on the internet archive, you can see it changes almost every week since 2012, so it's something …
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Comment #19343467
These are all great questions. Security is definitely our number one priority, especially since most of our customers are large enterprises. In order to create a link, you must fir…
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Comment #19343321
Good catch, we've been doing some price experimentation with user count and price, and I think that line needs to be updated.
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Comment #19343250
That's a great suggestion, our support page could include more technical details. It's long over due for some updates.
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Comment #19343236
We've actually curated a large list of the open source solutions on our blog. Find "The History of Go Links" article to see the full list!
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Comment #19343228
Stay tuned, we're working on creating a more granular permissions policy as this is a concern for many users. We can promise you that we don't store or read any information on the …
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Comment #19343206
Specifically, it's to resolve any go links that exist in your browser, but we plan to explore the partial permissions options to have the user choose if they want this feature enab…
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Comment #19343171
We're still experimenting with our ad strategy, but one of our target markets are previous employees of companies who have used to have a go link system. It just happen to spread t…
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Comment #19342952
Awesome! Definitely a problem a lot of companies have. Great to know we can help out.
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Comment #19342944
We have a mobile application on the product roadmap, so stay tuned! For our business model, we’re focusing on making GoLinks integrate with all the great applications that you use …
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Comment #19342893
Yep, It’s in our terms of service, in the unlikely case something happens to GoLinks, we will provide you with all your links. But we plan on being around for a long time.
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Comment #19342720
You pretty much just listed out our current backlog. Great minds think a like! For the first item though, we plan to implement “tags”. The sub directory format actually causes link…
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Comment #19341983
Yep! This is a problem we've addressed by making everyone in the organization an owner. If a link breaks, anyone in the organization can change it, even if the original creator lea…
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Comment #19341952
It's less of a link shortener and more of a link manager for companies. The concern that companies have with URL shorteners is they can't manage who is creating these links, and wh…
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Comment #19341646
Yep, that's correct! That works assuming you have access to setup subdomains for contoso.com. We make it easy for any employee, technical and non-technical, to update and create li…
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Comment #19341608
Always happy to see go links being used at other companies! You can actually take this a step further at Eligrey. By setting up a DNS Entry that redirects go.eligrey.com to the dom…
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Comment #19341386
This is definitely a real concern, and we're actually exploring the Chrome permissions to see if it's possible to redirect your traffic, without requiring the "Read all data" permi…