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Show HN: Dummy Link – The SMARTEST Hyperlink Placeholder You'll Ever Use
- scottatmu 9y agoTL;DR: I needed an easy way to test referral information for my side-projects. When I'm developing my side-projects I am always in need of placeholder data (images, avatars, text, etc) but when it came to hyperlinks, I always defaulted to using a hashtag ("#"). Why? Because it was the shortest and simplest value for me to enter into the HREF. So for years I've been using # as my placeholder hyperlink in all my side-projects but then had an "aha moment" when I started working on a project that I needed to test referral information. The project needed to detect both referral-in-and-out information which isn't a huge coding lift but it does get somewhat messy with all the echo, print, etc statements for testing. This was a pain point I needed to solve. Enter DummyLink.xyz. In its simplest form, Dummy Link allows you to create a page on our website that will display referral and browser information for links clicking in AND create a clickable link out to the URL so you can test referral information on your server. Wow ... that's a mouthful to even type!