Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
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Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#2Hello 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!
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#3I 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.
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#4I 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.
I just tried it out and it works. https://multy.me/l3uepo
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#5Looks 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?
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#6I 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.
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 ^^
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#7This 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.
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#8Any plans to open source?
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#9Looks 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?
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 ;)
Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites
#10Any plans to open source?
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!