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Hey guys! I just wrapped up the initial build of Shortlink. The idea is based off of I hate touching the mouse and my workflow can become Cmd+T, Cmd+L, m/[short

Hey guys! I just wrapped up the initial build of Shortlink. The idea is based off of I hate touching the mouse and my workflow can become Cmd+T, Cmd+L, m/[shortlink], Enter. No mouse needed for bookmarks, no overflow bookmarks bar! :D You can also use it as a link organization/searching utility, m/[invalid-shortlink] will automatically pull up relevant shortlinks related to your query, and you can always see all shortlinks by going to `m/` in your URL bar. A couple ways I have it set up is for reference pages or dashboards (ex. m/proj-ga => analytics.goog../#realtime/rt-overview/../) or things like gdrive folders (m/projects => drive.google..), and of course memes (m/thisisfine => .../thisisfine.jpg). tl;dr: A gif is worth a thousand thousand words https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif Hope everyone finds this useful! :D

simplehuman 10y ago
The gif did give me many words but not the ones you intended :) 403 Forbidden Code: AccessDenied Message: Access Denied RequestId: 1A562E114530E51D HostId: GPwxkg0B8oa+EB+haVBn92tO6h1VhCJJhDnRV+17lOXjS/L+tnZD6nzqQzvoppdOi4UooN1h2SY=
- mikeshi42 10y ago
  Haha I wonder if this was an S3 issue... anyways re-uploaded to another provider. I hope this one works! https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif
woodrowbarlow 10y ago
> You can also use it as a link organization/searching utility. You aren't selling this feature hard enough -- definitely mention it in the extension description. If I were on Chrome (I'm on Firefox), that feature would make me install it and use it instead of bookmarks. Except... a 16-link limit? Seriously? That's not even enough to get a sense of whether it's something I'd enjoy using. Most people have more than 16 tabs open at any given time, not to mention bookmarks. If you're shipping this as a fremium thing, give users enough to get hooked.
- mikeshi42 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I've found out that a lot of people use this differently and I'm definitely still pivoting into the use case of organization and search and out of "oh this will get to your URLs faster". Thank you though, I'll be editing my description in a bit :P As for 16, I hover under the limit myself, but I understand if that might seem a bit low and that's fair. I was just experimenting with the idea of freemium and didn't want to have a higher limit and lower it later and have more people upset. I'll be looking to bump up the limit in the future (or possibly remove it, since it might not even be a feature people care about.) In your opinion, what do you think is a reasonable limit to set? (Or is it just unreasonable to limit it at all?)
  - kinduff 10y ago
    In my honest opinion, this kind of tools should not be monetized through its core functionality. My opinion as a user/developer, this is awesome, but 16? I would build one myself. Try to search another way to monetize, some ads on your landing page or additional features, but would not go to limit the core functionality. Good luck!

simplehuman 10y ago

The gif did give me many words but not the ones you intended :) 403 Forbidden Code: AccessDenied Message: Access Denied RequestId: 1A562E114530E51D HostId: GPwxkg0B8oa+EB+haVBn92tO6h1VhCJJhDnRV+17lOXjS/L+tnZD6nzqQzvoppdOi4UooN1h2SY=

mikeshi42 10y ago
Haha I wonder if this was an S3 issue... anyways re-uploaded to another provider. I hope this one works! https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif

woodrowbarlow 10y ago

> You can also use it as a link organization/searching utility. You aren't selling this feature hard enough -- definitely mention it in the extension description. If I were on Chrome (I'm on Firefox), that feature would make me install it and use it instead of bookmarks. Except... a 16-link limit? Seriously? That's not even enough to get a sense of whether it's something I'd enjoy using. Most people have more than 16 tabs open at any given time, not to mention bookmarks. If you're shipping this as a fremium thing, give users enough to get hooked.

mikeshi42 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I've found out that a lot of people use this differently and I'm definitely still pivoting into the use case of organization and search and out of "oh this will get to your URLs faster". Thank you though, I'll be editing my description in a bit :P As for 16, I hover under the limit myself, but I understand if that might seem a bit low and that's fair. I was just experimenting with the idea of freemium and didn't want to have a higher limit and lower it later and have more people upset. I'll be looking to bump up the limit in the future (or possibly remove it, since it might not even be a feature people care about.) In your opinion, what do you think is a reasonable limit to set? (Or is it just unreasonable to limit it at all?)
- kinduff 10y ago
  In my honest opinion, this kind of tools should not be monetized through its core functionality. My opinion as a user/developer, this is awesome, but 16? I would build one myself. Try to search another way to monetize, some ads on your landing page or additional features, but would not go to limit the core functionality. Good luck!