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

Post by sleepychu » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 9:33 AM UTC

Etheon wrote: post #9

ljf wrote: post #5

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?

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 ;)

Post by solstice » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 10:31 AM UTC

abhinav22 wrote: post #42

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…

This is an obvious subtle example of thread high jacking, masquerading as a helpful comment, but aimed at getting traffic to your website. Should be against the rules. I don’t have the ability to report, hence posting here

Post by Etheon » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 10:37 AM UTC

sleepychu wrote: post #41

Etheon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

Just to keep you aware, this is a problem you probably need to solve sooner rather than later. When you're discovered by spammers they will use your service to mask their true domain and share to social media sites which will in due course blacklist your domain. :-( If volumes are low enough just now I'd consider some kind of manual moderation. (Maybe you could use the referrer header, detect if the user has come fro…

Post by soneca » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 12:48 PM UTC

Etheon wrote: post #40

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…

Post by kirubakaran » Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 2:07 PM UTC

adambware wrote: post #18

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!