Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets • Hacker News Board

Re: Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets

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Post by whatgaul » Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

Thorrez wrote: post #28

willnorris wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A couple of the startups that do go links have blog posts on the history: https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/ https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story

Those 2 stories kind of contradict each other. One says Benjamin Staffin invented golinks, then later another Googler built golinks in 2006. The other says Benjamin Staffin created golinks around 2009/2010.

Original author of https://github.com/trotto/go-links here! We spoke with Benjamin directly, so I trust his recollection.

Re: Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets

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Post by ninawalters » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

mustafa01ali wrote: post #61

I've never worked at a company that uses go links so I have to ask - what problem do these solve? Every URL I visit frequently automatically shows up in auto complete suggestions in my browser.

this is great summary of what you're asking for! https://golinks.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-go-links/

Re: Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets

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Post by ninawalters » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

Sebguer wrote: post #26

mlindner wrote: post #25

Is this a general thing? I thought it was specific to my former employer (F5). We used go/(foo) extensively and there was numerous hotlinks for all sorts of internal services as well as a pretty interesting interface to design your own. I had thought it was an internal service developed internally. It looks like our internal version was a lot better than this open source version, at least by the screenshots.

It originated at Google, but at this point most BigTech or places founded by former BigTech have their own version. There's even a SaaS version: https://www.golinks.io/

Hey! I work for GoLinks, just wanted to thank you for the shout-out!

Re: Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets

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Post by jazamora » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

sullivanmatt wrote: post #10

The name is going to be quickly problematic if the trademark holder for golinks.io decides to get litigious: https://trademarks.justia.com/owners/zamora-jorge-3828689/

Trademark was found via a Hackernews thread? You guys are good :) We have three trademarks that we've defended successfully before. Would encourage anyone wanting to try to use go/links, to just sign up to https://www.golinks.io ... it's completely free to use, forever and you can get started in a few seconds. We're trying to get go/links everywhere and are happy to be at the forefront of that :)