I use golinks for personal use and it is incredibly valuable. Thanks for the service!
Great to hear! Few of our users have suggested this and is something that solves a valid use case :)
Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
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Re: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
#12It would be great if you could create a separate links page for individual teams within an organization. The most important and most complicated links at my work tend to be specific to my team, and are not relevant to the rest of the company.
Unless I'm using the product wrong...
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#13It asks me to install a browser extension, which asks for this permission: "It can: Read and change all your data on the websites you visit". Is it normal?
The extension will read the text on screen to determine if there are any golinks so that it can change it to a click-through link. We know this may sound scary but rest assure that we do not have any ability to see or save any content. Your privacy is our top concern.
Re: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
#14It would be great if you could create a separate links page for individual teams within an organization. The most important and most complicated links at my work tend to be specific to my team, and are not relevant to the rest of the company. Unless I'm using the product wrong...
Thanks for that feedback! We've actually been hearing that from multiple users and have added the feature to our backlog.
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#15It asks me to install a browser extension, which asks for this permission: "It can: Read and change all your data on the websites you visit". Is it normal?
The browser extension is how you we're able to get "go/" links working in your browser without having any kind of network infrastructure. We have other integration options without the extension but its the recommended approach. https://www.golinks.io/support.php#technical
Re: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
#16Isn't this identical to Bit.ly's business model?
Re: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
#17If you want a simple (but bare-bones) self-hosted version of this service, check out the open source version I made a couple years back:
https://github.com/Detry322/redisred
Here’s a hubot plugin for slack:
https://github.com/Detry322/hubot-redisred
We use this extensively at MIT for HackMIT and the MIT Pokerbots competition, and best of all, it’s free.
The deploy to Heroku button should “just work”.
Re: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
#18I think our company has a policy against using shortened URLs, namely because: - If the company goes out of business, then our documentation and business logs have a lot of dead, useless links that can't be fixed after the fact. If it's a business critical use case, then you just shot yourself in the foot. - Related to the above, it's not human-parseable. If you're on a mailing list and you send out a hyperlink, you…
(Not creator, but have a similar chrome extension for personal use [0])
I think you might be confusing this product with shorteners like bit.ly. The format should actually be more semantic such as `m/roadmap/q2` rather than `bit.ly/Fa2ca`
That being said I agree the long term durability of the business would be a concern (as with any SaaS) for people. But that hasn't stopped the growth of other SaaS cos (and I'm sure there can be workarounds for ensuring usability even if they fold).
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortlink/apgeoooc...
Re: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
#19Isn't this identical to Bit.ly's business model?
Great question, and it’s a common question we get a lot. Bit.ly allows you to shorten links in marketing campaigns, and is meant for public use. GoLinks is used to make links memorable and conversational and is private, so it can only be used within your company.
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#20I think our company has a policy against using shortened URLs, namely because: - If the company goes out of business, then our documentation and business logs have a lot of dead, useless links that can't be fixed after the fact. If it's a business critical use case, then you just shot yourself in the foot. - Related to the above, it's not human-parseable. If you're on a mailing list and you send out a hyperlink, you…
(Not creator, but have a similar chrome extension for personal use [0]) I think you might be confusing this product with shorteners like bit.ly. The format should actually be more semantic such as `m/roadmap/q2` rather than `bit.ly/Fa2ca` That being said I agree the long term durability of the business would be a concern (as with any SaaS) for people. But that hasn't stopped the growth of other SaaS cos (and I'm sure…
Ah, gotcha. I was thinking of the latter, haven't seen the former. I still think it's an induced, unnecessary dependency and I'm not sure I myself would trust something like this. But best of luck to the creators, I hope their customers will find it useful enough to renew/expand :)