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Ask YC feedback: Simply create a single URL from multiple URLs

30 points by wave 18y ago

wave 18y ago
I created Fuseurl to simplify sharing multiple URLs. Instead of posting or emailing 10 different URLs, you can just create a single URL and share it. I got the idea when I wanted to text message someone multiple URLs. The site can also be used to create a quick reference to your favorite websites. I appreciate any feedbacks you have.
- hcho 18y ago
  You could be more creative when displaying multiple pages.How about tabs instead of putting one under another? Widgets and Firefox extensions spring into mind, given the concept. Useful app nonetheless.
  - piers 18y ago
    I agree with the tabs. Would make it a lot easier to navigate. Other than that, I disagree. I can't see this being very useful IMO.
  - alaskamiller 18y ago
    tabs requires concentration and clicking; scrolling is always the best option
ajkirwin 18y ago
Augh. Frames.
mattjung 18y ago
Nice simple idea. This is surely useful when you want to send several URLs to someone. For me, this is rather an edge usecase during my web-activities. So I'm not sure if this has potential to be monetized somehow.
- wave 18y ago
  Thanks for all your comments. Relative to how simple it was to create, I thought it worth to put it out there and see if people like it. [edit]See how it can also be used. See the second comment: http://digg.com/travel_places/Top_Ten_Transportation_Photos http://digg.com/travel_places/Top_Ten_Transportation_Photos
- sanswork 18y ago
  It would probably be best to monetize it as you would proxy site. With Adsense and a few affiliate banners. Then once traffic gets up a bit flip it on sitepoint.
  - andreyf 18y ago
    Ew, how unimaginative. I think it's probably more clever to exploit the fact that people are associating sites with each other - if someone is interested in one, they'd be interested in the others. Maybe start a web search?
    - 9oliYQjP 18y ago
      And/Or, this would be a very useful way of using humans to relate URLs to each other with an explanation of what the relation is. I'm not well-versed on the current state of AI but I think this sort of activity is still something that is too complex to get computers to do well and efficiently.
    - sanswork 18y ago
      And you would monetize that how?
      - smhinsey 18y ago
        volume! economies of scale!
joao 18y ago
You should also create a link to an example page, already populated with multiple urls choosen by you, just to demonstraste the service.
- xirium 18y ago
  Bonus points if it involves downforeveryoneorjustme.com and validator.w3.org ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153995 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153995 ), uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177478 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177478 ) and y.soho.lt
xirium 18y ago
I see that you've rediscovered trails and incorporated it into URL shortening service which uses frames to navigate through the trail. As the author of uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177441 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177441 ), I might be biased, but I like it. You may want to get a .se domain to make the URL shorter. You may want to map resource IDs to letters for easier typing on mobile telephones.
ajkirwin 18y ago
Also, as a further point. If you're going to the trouble of going to a site, copy-pasting all these into a form, clicking a button, then emailing that.. wouldn't you save more time, really, just emailing the list?
- wave 18y ago
  Thank you for your comment. As it was mentioned, this wasn't to be used just during emailing but it can also be used during texting, chat session and posting comments
ca98am79 18y ago
It is nice - the only thing I would suggest is that if I'm creating a fuse of many pages on one site, all of the links on the top just have the site name and no way to distinguish. For example, this fuse : http://fuseurl.com/2w http://fuseurl.com/2w just has 'news.ycombinator.com|news.ycombinator.com' at the top - a way to manually change the titles to these links would be nice.
raju 18y ago
wave - Very very nice idea. Good execution, great concept. I often have to do this, and hats off to you, coz I did not think of this. One small suggestion, and I might be splitting hairs here, but maybe make the tabs on the top a little more prominent. I missed it the first time around. Nothing that you need to take care of, I just figured I would pen it down. I also see that you are not checking the url to see if its valid (which is fine). It does bring up one problem and that is if I link to three HM links, they all show up as the same name in the tab. Maybe give an option to name the tab... ? Update - Woops, ca98am79 had the same suggestion as me. Sorry. Did not see that prior to posting my comment
- wave 18y ago
  I had a code to check for a valid url, but removed it because I didn't think it was really necessary. I just want to make it faster and simpler
johnrob 18y ago
I'd avoid using the term 'newline' in the description. Maybe something like "Enter URLs, one per line". Newline seems like a developer term.
joepestro 18y ago
Cool - One thing I'd fix is the horizontal scrollbar (I'm getting it at 1024x768)
rantfoil 18y ago
It's not really obvious to a non-technical user that there are multiple pages going on there. Not sure how you would make that more clear, but the links at the top don't quite do it.
markbao 18y ago
Nice and simple. Open All is nice (except that (tabs) doesn't work.) Good support for back/forward. Take a look at Trailfire ( http://www.trailfire.com http://www.trailfire.com ). They do some interesting stuff with the same idea, but allow comments in places and stuff.
aleo 18y ago
Very nice, thanks.
msfeldstein 18y ago
somethings wrong with your layout, on my macbook (13.3") on firefox i can't get down to the sample links, i had to make the text smaller
dfens 18y ago
nytimes.com busts out of the frame.

30 points by wave 18y ago

wave 18y ago

I created Fuseurl to simplify sharing multiple URLs. Instead of posting or emailing 10 different URLs, you can just create a single URL and share it. I got the idea when I wanted to text message someone multiple URLs. The site can also be used to create a quick reference to your favorite websites. I appreciate any feedbacks you have.

hcho 18y ago
You could be more creative when displaying multiple pages.How about tabs instead of putting one under another? Widgets and Firefox extensions spring into mind, given the concept. Useful app nonetheless.
- piers 18y ago
  I agree with the tabs. Would make it a lot easier to navigate. Other than that, I disagree. I can't see this being very useful IMO.
- alaskamiller 18y ago
  tabs requires concentration and clicking; scrolling is always the best option

ajkirwin 18y ago

Augh. Frames.

mattjung 18y ago

Nice simple idea. This is surely useful when you want to send several URLs to someone. For me, this is rather an edge usecase during my web-activities. So I'm not sure if this has potential to be monetized somehow.

wave 18y ago
Thanks for all your comments. Relative to how simple it was to create, I thought it worth to put it out there and see if people like it. [edit]See how it can also be used. See the second comment: http://digg.com/travel_places/Top_Ten_Transportation_Photos http://digg.com/travel_places/Top_Ten_Transportation_Photos
sanswork 18y ago
It would probably be best to monetize it as you would proxy site. With Adsense and a few affiliate banners. Then once traffic gets up a bit flip it on sitepoint.
- andreyf 18y ago
  Ew, how unimaginative. I think it's probably more clever to exploit the fact that people are associating sites with each other - if someone is interested in one, they'd be interested in the others. Maybe start a web search?
  - 9oliYQjP 18y ago
    And/Or, this would be a very useful way of using humans to relate URLs to each other with an explanation of what the relation is. I'm not well-versed on the current state of AI but I think this sort of activity is still something that is too complex to get computers to do well and efficiently.
  - sanswork 18y ago
    And you would monetize that how?
    - smhinsey 18y ago
      volume! economies of scale!

joao 18y ago

You should also create a link to an example page, already populated with multiple urls choosen by you, just to demonstraste the service.

xirium 18y ago
Bonus points if it involves downforeveryoneorjustme.com and validator.w3.org ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153995 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153995 ), uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177478 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177478 ) and y.soho.lt

xirium 18y ago

I see that you've rediscovered trails and incorporated it into URL shortening service which uses frames to navigate through the trail. As the author of uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177441 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177441 ), I might be biased, but I like it. You may want to get a .se domain to make the URL shorter. You may want to map resource IDs to letters for easier typing on mobile telephones.

ajkirwin 18y ago

Also, as a further point. If you're going to the trouble of going to a site, copy-pasting all these into a form, clicking a button, then emailing that.. wouldn't you save more time, really, just emailing the list?

wave 18y ago
Thank you for your comment. As it was mentioned, this wasn't to be used just during emailing but it can also be used during texting, chat session and posting comments

ca98am79 18y ago

It is nice - the only thing I would suggest is that if I'm creating a fuse of many pages on one site, all of the links on the top just have the site name and no way to distinguish. For example, this fuse : http://fuseurl.com/2w http://fuseurl.com/2w just has 'news.ycombinator.com|news.ycombinator.com' at the top - a way to manually change the titles to these links would be nice.

raju 18y ago

wave - Very very nice idea. Good execution, great concept. I often have to do this, and hats off to you, coz I did not think of this. One small suggestion, and I might be splitting hairs here, but maybe make the tabs on the top a little more prominent. I missed it the first time around. Nothing that you need to take care of, I just figured I would pen it down. I also see that you are not checking the url to see if its valid (which is fine). It does bring up one problem and that is if I link to three HM links, they all show up as the same name in the tab. Maybe give an option to name the tab... ? Update - Woops, ca98am79 had the same suggestion as me. Sorry. Did not see that prior to posting my comment

wave 18y ago
I had a code to check for a valid url, but removed it because I didn't think it was really necessary. I just want to make it faster and simpler

johnrob 18y ago

I'd avoid using the term 'newline' in the description. Maybe something like "Enter URLs, one per line". Newline seems like a developer term.

joepestro 18y ago

Cool - One thing I'd fix is the horizontal scrollbar (I'm getting it at 1024x768)

rantfoil 18y ago

It's not really obvious to a non-technical user that there are multiple pages going on there. Not sure how you would make that more clear, but the links at the top don't quite do it.

markbao 18y ago

Nice and simple. Open All is nice (except that (tabs) doesn't work.) Good support for back/forward. Take a look at Trailfire ( http://www.trailfire.com http://www.trailfire.com ). They do some interesting stuff with the same idea, but allow comments in places and stuff.

aleo 18y ago

Very nice, thanks.

msfeldstein 18y ago

somethings wrong with your layout, on my macbook (13.3") on firefox i can't get down to the sample links, i had to make the text smaller

dfens 18y ago

nytimes.com busts out of the frame.