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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 d33lio »

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

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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 second this. I went to college to study CS but most of my time learning to program was largely "self taught" lol.

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

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Post by dang »

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

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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)+…

I had to add some newlines to your JS because it was borking the page layout. Sorry; it's our bug. One of these days we will fix it.

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

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Post by zuhayeer »

Etheon wrote: post #2

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 c…

This is awesome, I'm using it to group links for different cool TLDs (.fyi, .career, .fund, .finance)

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

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Post by ksm1717 »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #29
Jaxkr wrote: post #26

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Great job and great idea! Such a great idea it’s a successful company: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/26/linktree-raises-10-7m-for-... Keep it up!

Linktree is incredibly popular. What I've never quite understood is the number of people that have a linktree with one of the links pointing to their homepage. Why don't they just host the lot on their own homepage, if they have one?

Probably an aesthetic decision, or the overhead of changing the site?

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

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Post by codazoda »

kickscondor wrote: post #28

Another great example of how miniature personal directories are experiencing a comeback. * https://tray.club - like this, but allows subpages and notes areas. * https://gossipsweb.net - pay $1 to be in this directory ('cozy web'-type vibe) * https://terra.finzdani.net - personal directory * https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ - another one * https://href.cool/ - mine But I love the simplicity of Multy - dump your links and c…

It's not immediately obvious to me what href.cool is.

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

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Post by bdcravens »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #29
Jaxkr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great job and great idea! Such a great idea it’s a successful company: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/26/linktree-raises-10-7m-for-... Keep it up!

Linktree is incredibly popular. What I've never quite understood is the number of people that have a linktree with one of the links pointing to their homepage. Why don't they just host the lot on their own homepage, if they have one?

I think it's used on a lot of social media platforms like TikTok where the users are used to a quick click kind of interaction.

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

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Post by filt »

Some bugs:

When clicking the grid view, it does not work with åäö. And probably other character as well.

https://multy.me/x7R7AB

If I add two urls, most of the time, the last one does not show up.

If i add a URL that has a 301 to another url, it's the target url, not the one i entered, that get's published.

When clicking "create list" it takes 5-8 seconds before the list is created. This seems like a long time for such a simple operation.

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

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Post by Etheon »

Etheon wrote: post #2

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 c…

People seemed to like the project, so I created a page on product hunt,I'll see how it goes ^^ https://www.producthunt.com/posts/multy

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

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Post by Etheon »

filt wrote: post #38

Some bugs: When clicking the grid view, it does not work with åäö. And probably other character as well. https://multy.me/x7R7AB If I add two urls, most of the time, the last one does not show up. If i add a URL that has a 301 to another url, it's the target url, not the one i entered, that get's published. When clicking "create list" it takes 5-8 seconds before the list is created. This seems like a long time for su…

Thank you for your report, I'll try to fix the issues you mentioned. For the last one, it takes some times because I verify the metadata from the URLs, and check if the website exists. I don't know if it's a good idea but this is how it works right now. And this is why you see the target url with a 301.

I don't want users to do link cloaking on Multy and if people click on something on Multy, they are aware of where they're going. This is why I do that, and this is why I also want to integrate a domain blacklist.

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