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Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by jamescampbell »

Etheon wrote: post #6
jamescampbell wrote: post #3

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.

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 ^^

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=document.getSelection();
  %7Delse%7Bd='';%7D;p=document.title;void(open('https://mailephant.email/views/curate.html? 
  showtags=yes&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&
  title='+encodeURIComponent(p),'Mailephant','toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=700'));

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by jamescampbell »

jamescampbell wrote: post #11
Etheon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ^^

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=document.getSelection(); %7Delse%7Bd='';%7D;p=document.title;void(open('https://mailephant.email/views/curate.html? showtags=yes&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+…

You just save that as a new bookmark after updated your endpoint and you can gather that data quickly.

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by jamescampbell »

Etheon wrote: post #10
d33lio wrote: post #8

Any 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!

In my experience, every developer that I hired self-taught was 10x better at solving problems and getting things done themselves than traditionally taught.

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by Etheon »

tux1968 wrote: post #7

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.

Thank you :)

So for example multy.me/xXere-1 and you'll be able to go directly to the link?

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by jstrieb »

jamescampbell wrote: post #3

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.

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

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by Etheon »

jamescampbell wrote: post #13
Etheon wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

In my experience, every developer that I hired self-taught was 10x better at solving problems and getting things done themselves than traditionally taught.

I heard that a lot, but the impostor syndrome is always strong when you didn't do anything publicly before!

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by Etheon »

jamescampbell wrote: post #12
jamescampbell wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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=document.getSelection(); %7Delse%7Bd='';%7D;p=document.title;void(open('https://mailephant.email/views/curate.html? showtags=yes&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+…

You just save that as a new bookmark after updated your endpoint and you can gather that data quickly.

Thank you for the tips! I will definitely try that this week end and keep you updated.

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by tux1968 »

Etheon wrote: post #14
tux1968 wrote: post #7

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.

Thank you :) So for example multy.me/xXere-1 and you'll be able to go directly to the link?

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.

Re: Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites

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Post by Etheon »

tux1968 wrote: post #19
Etheon wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you :) So for example multy.me/xXere-1 and you'll be able to go directly to the link?

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…

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.
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