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Show HN: Jumprope – Terminal-like commands for the Chrome search bar

61 points by scottfits 5y ago

scottfits 5y ago
Hey y'all, I built this after working at Facebook and using the much-loved internal tool called bunnylol. You could do things like looking up users with commands like "id 124124512" to pull up a specific fb account. Would love for you to try it out and give feedback!
- geoah 5y ago
  Hey, congrats on launching this. Worked like a charm and overall looks really polished. I'd be interesting in using this but if I understand correctly this works by replacing the search functionality which means all my searches go to jumprope. I am not sure if there is a way around this in chrome but for me it's a deal breaker.
  - scottfits 5y ago
    thanks for the feedback! we don't save searches, but I see the concern and we may release an update where your jumps are stored locally in browser storage and only routed through Jumprope if its in the local jump list
- JoshCole 5y ago
  Thanks for this. I appreciate this type of product and will likely use it. Right now I'm not able to because it doesn't seem to be playing well with Brave. Clicking add command takes me to the homepage. No add command functionality is surfaced. One question I have is why is this preferable to creating these commands using the browser search engine integration directly? They support keyword prefixes. They support a command line like pass through structure.
  - scottfits 5y ago
    i think this problem happens on brave because there is no user account and it needs to have an email to create the account. there are a couple benefits to building it this way, for example sharing commands across an organization is now possible (so for example you can create a command and make it available to your company to use.) for example, we use it at my company AirGarage to search django admin, open company zoom links, open reports, etc and if one person adds a command everyone can use it
- mavsman 5y ago
  Looks useful but memorizing commands can be challenging. I'm guessing there's something in mind for this... What is the AI aspect of it? (assuming based on the URL)
  - scottfits 5y ago
    to be honest there is no AI yet - the vision is to have predictive suggestions, automatically open the first result on the page if beyond a certain confidence threshold, etc! and yes, I do agree memorization is hard with more than a few commands. I am trying to solve it by adding jumps to the search suggestions, so when you type things like drive.google a search suggestion will say "tip, use gd to open or search google drive"
- ccheever 5y ago
  I made that tool originally! This looks much more modern and polished. Excited to try this.
Chief_Emerie 5y ago
Cheers! This has been a great productivity booster. I can search my django admin instantly and with ease.
Arelius 5y ago
Looks neat, and similar to ddg's bang searches. I set ddg as my default search engine, and use it similarly, `!tw Joe Biden` in my Firefox search bar to search for tweets about Joe Biden and the like.
- scottfits 5y ago
  oh thanks for the heads up, yes looks similar. But Jumprope hopefully has a couple more perks: You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai https://jumprope.ai without needing to submit them to ddg You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm" opens the company zoom link but yes thanks for the heads up!
  - andrewjmg 5y ago
    how exactly do I create my own shortcuts? I can only see the landing page.
    - scottfits 5y ago
      Perhaps your sign up did not work - you have to have a google chrome account with an email address and then install the extension here. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumprope/peljbehfbigebpgbcdbkdbochkkdnfff https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumprope/peljbehfb... if that doesnt work please reach out to scott@jumprope.ai and i will investigate
- nr2x 5y ago
  Recently switched from many, many years of DDG back to Google and I really miss bangs...otherwise, results are way better.
  - behnamoh 5y ago
    Why did you switch?
yewenjie 5y ago
There is duckduckgo bangs which has over 13000 custom site searches [1]. Also, you can write your own complex regex based replacements using Redirector [2] - the potentials are infinite! [1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang [2] https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
- scottfits 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing out bangs, it's definitely a good product too. I do think Jumprope has a couple legs up: You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai https://jumprope.ai without needing to submit them to ddg for approval You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm" opens the company zoom link but yes looks like bangs has some cool regex manipulation but hopefully Jumprope is easier to get started with.
  - anotheryou 5y ago
    if you could make it work offline that would be a big plus
    - samhh 5y ago
      If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty you may like bangin: https://sr.ht/~samhh/bangin/ https://sr.ht/~samhh/bangin/
      - anotheryou 5y ago
        But I can't type in the browser bar than right? hmm edit: uh oh, i see: "With the use of bangin-server-node it is possible to use bangin as the search engine in your web browser. " I'm about 90% there already with other hacks, just stuck to having + signs instead of spaces :) My ridiculous way: - https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector - some local-host open-search plugin meant for self hosted searx. Adds a bunch of junk parameters but searches on localhost:8888/q=SEARCHTEAM%morecrap - set it to my default search - some redicoulous regex trying to catch the search term after the bang !z ^(?:http:\/\/localhost:8888\/\?q=%21z\+)(.*)&language=en&time_range=&safesearch=0&categories=general - same without the bang for fallback redirecting to duckduckgo
POiNTx 5y ago
I've tried sending a mail to hello@jumprope.ai to apply for the firefox beta, but it gave an error saying "the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail". In any case, good luck! This seems like something I'd want to use!
- scottfits 5y ago
  sorry, thanks i forgot to set that up. if you email me at scott@jumprope.ai i will add you to the firefox list
  - RileyJames 5y ago
    In case you are selectively forwarding mail, I’d suggest forwardemail.net Wild card or specify addresses. It’s been a game changer for me to centralise email across side projects and mini sites. Also fully functional on the free plan. Too many solutions just didn’t quite work, or were a pain to setup. Losing email sucks, and not knowing you’re missing them leads to unnecessary paranoia.
    - nathancahill 5y ago
      ForwardEmail is fantastic. Use it for all side projects.
      - ampdepolymerase 5y ago
        What is the economics of Forward Email? How are they able to afford such low pricing when other incumbents like improvMX and forwardMX are much more pricier?
m_x 5y ago
For the search use case, I use Firefox search keywords [1]. It avoids a useless redirection through duckduckgo ; I use duckduckgo bangs when I don't have a keyword configured. You can even add search keywords by right clicking on a search field -> "Add a keyword for this search". It works on intranets and internal knowledge bases too. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar?redirectslug=Smart+keywords&redirectlocale=en-US https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...
- behnamoh 5y ago
  This. In addition, you can use "Custom Search Engine" extension on Firefox to create custom search queries on Amazon, YouTube, etc. with keyboard shortcuts. For example, if I want to search for something on Amazon, I type "AA{space}USB Dongle" and it automatically searches the Amazon for "USB Dongle". The neat thing is that I customized the search URL so that "AA" also filters the results (shows only +4-star products, New, and Prime). I've done similar thing with YouTube where I type "YY{space}" from anywhere and end up searching on YouTube.
mikewhy 5y ago
It's not super obvious, but chrome and Edge already support a sort of keyword lookup for history entries. IE I type "github repo pulls" and the top suggestion is for "github.com/company/repo/pulls".
deleted 5y ago
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1cvmask 5y ago
Hello there. Your about page returns a 404.
- ianwalter 5y ago
  It does tell you something about them though, like the fact that they are using Next.js, haha.
- scottfits 5y ago
  oops thank you
knubie 5y ago
Great idea! This looks really handy. I just tried installing it but when I try to click "add command" or "see command" it just redirects to the home page.
- scottfits 5y ago
  this may happen if you don't have a user account signed in in Chrome? Jumprope needs an email to create your account. let me know if this is the wrong diagnosis.
muhammadusman 5y ago
reminds me of autojump on the command line, I bet this can be immensely useful if it didn't rely only on searching and bookmarking, e.g. "jira create 'user auth setup'" (this would create a ticket in jira with that title)
- scottfits 5y ago
  yes, i love autojump for terminal, definitely part of the inspiration for this. And I agree on adding more utility to create / edit - we are going in this direction for example jumprope has these commands: c1 new - create a new calendar invite m1 new - create a new email in gmail
felixmc 5y ago
facebook has something like this internally (bunnylol), everyone's browser uses an internal search engine by default that parses the query into commands that can take args and often route to internal tools, etc it's pretty neat, the open source version is called bunny1
- scottfits 5y ago
  yes! my time working there using bunnylol for everything was actually the inspiration for the tool :)
jayross2730 5y ago
About page is not found
- scottfits 5y ago
  thank you
andihow 5y ago
you can literally just do this with bookmarks and '%s' - for example set the bookmark destination to https://www.google.com/search?q=%s https://www.google.com/search?q=%s and set the bookmark's keyword to 'google'. you can now trigger a google search by typing "google [search term here]" ...after typing all this out i realize google is a redundant example but you get the idea
orliesaurus 5y ago
I love this idea, I would use this every day if it was native to my Android and Desktop Chrome, does the extension read/send any of my data anywhere? (Incl. Usage)
divbzero 5y ago
In any browser, setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine can give you the first four search examples featured in the home page banner for jumprope.ai: !fb elise d !drive resume !github APIClient !zoom.us standup DuckDuckGo does not, however, have bang shortcuts for Stripe or some of the other example commands.
purplecats 5y ago
oh god this sends every query to some third party server. hard no. just run a local server and allow configuration that way.
kissgyorgy 5y ago
Why is it controlling the "On startup" settings? I can't use it because of that.

61 points by scottfits 5y ago

Hey y'all, I built this after working at Facebook and using the much-loved internal tool called bunnylol. You could do things like looking up users with commands like "id 124124512" to pull up a specific fb account. Would love for you to try it out and give feedback!

geoah 5y ago
Hey, congrats on launching this. Worked like a charm and overall looks really polished. I'd be interesting in using this but if I understand correctly this works by replacing the search functionality which means all my searches go to jumprope. I am not sure if there is a way around this in chrome but for me it's a deal breaker.
- scottfits 5y ago
  thanks for the feedback! we don't save searches, but I see the concern and we may release an update where your jumps are stored locally in browser storage and only routed through Jumprope if its in the local jump list
JoshCole 5y ago
Thanks for this. I appreciate this type of product and will likely use it. Right now I'm not able to because it doesn't seem to be playing well with Brave. Clicking add command takes me to the homepage. No add command functionality is surfaced. One question I have is why is this preferable to creating these commands using the browser search engine integration directly? They support keyword prefixes. They support a command line like pass through structure.
- scottfits 5y ago
  i think this problem happens on brave because there is no user account and it needs to have an email to create the account. there are a couple benefits to building it this way, for example sharing commands across an organization is now possible (so for example you can create a command and make it available to your company to use.) for example, we use it at my company AirGarage to search django admin, open company zoom links, open reports, etc and if one person adds a command everyone can use it
mavsman 5y ago
Looks useful but memorizing commands can be challenging. I'm guessing there's something in mind for this... What is the AI aspect of it? (assuming based on the URL)
- scottfits 5y ago
  to be honest there is no AI yet - the vision is to have predictive suggestions, automatically open the first result on the page if beyond a certain confidence threshold, etc! and yes, I do agree memorization is hard with more than a few commands. I am trying to solve it by adding jumps to the search suggestions, so when you type things like drive.google a search suggestion will say "tip, use gd to open or search google drive"
ccheever 5y ago
I made that tool originally! This looks much more modern and polished. Excited to try this.

Chief_Emerie 5y ago

Cheers! This has been a great productivity booster. I can search my django admin instantly and with ease.

Arelius 5y ago

Looks neat, and similar to ddg's bang searches. I set ddg as my default search engine, and use it similarly, `!tw Joe Biden` in my Firefox search bar to search for tweets about Joe Biden and the like.

scottfits 5y ago
oh thanks for the heads up, yes looks similar. But Jumprope hopefully has a couple more perks: You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai https://jumprope.ai without needing to submit them to ddg You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm" opens the company zoom link but yes thanks for the heads up!
- andrewjmg 5y ago
  how exactly do I create my own shortcuts? I can only see the landing page.
  - scottfits 5y ago
    Perhaps your sign up did not work - you have to have a google chrome account with an email address and then install the extension here. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumprope/peljbehfbigebpgbcdbkdbochkkdnfff https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumprope/peljbehfb... if that doesnt work please reach out to scott@jumprope.ai and i will investigate
nr2x 5y ago
Recently switched from many, many years of DDG back to Google and I really miss bangs...otherwise, results are way better.
- behnamoh 5y ago
  Why did you switch?

yewenjie 5y ago

There is duckduckgo bangs which has over 13000 custom site searches [1]. Also, you can write your own complex regex based replacements using Redirector [2] - the potentials are infinite! [1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang [2] https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

scottfits 5y ago
Thanks for pointing out bangs, it's definitely a good product too. I do think Jumprope has a couple legs up: You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai https://jumprope.ai without needing to submit them to ddg for approval You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm" opens the company zoom link but yes looks like bangs has some cool regex manipulation but hopefully Jumprope is easier to get started with.
- anotheryou 5y ago
  if you could make it work offline that would be a big plus
  - samhh 5y ago
    If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty you may like bangin: https://sr.ht/~samhh/bangin/ https://sr.ht/~samhh/bangin/
    - anotheryou 5y ago
      But I can't type in the browser bar than right? hmm edit: uh oh, i see: "With the use of bangin-server-node it is possible to use bangin as the search engine in your web browser. " I'm about 90% there already with other hacks, just stuck to having + signs instead of spaces :) My ridiculous way: - https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector - some local-host open-search plugin meant for self hosted searx. Adds a bunch of junk parameters but searches on localhost:8888/q=SEARCHTEAM%morecrap - set it to my default search - some redicoulous regex trying to catch the search term after the bang !z ^(?:http:\/\/localhost:8888\/\?q=%21z\+)(.*)&language=en&time_range=&safesearch=0&categories=general - same without the bang for fallback redirecting to duckduckgo

POiNTx 5y ago

I've tried sending a mail to hello@jumprope.ai to apply for the firefox beta, but it gave an error saying "the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail". In any case, good luck! This seems like something I'd want to use!

scottfits 5y ago
sorry, thanks i forgot to set that up. if you email me at scott@jumprope.ai i will add you to the firefox list
- RileyJames 5y ago
  In case you are selectively forwarding mail, I’d suggest forwardemail.net Wild card or specify addresses. It’s been a game changer for me to centralise email across side projects and mini sites. Also fully functional on the free plan. Too many solutions just didn’t quite work, or were a pain to setup. Losing email sucks, and not knowing you’re missing them leads to unnecessary paranoia.
  - nathancahill 5y ago
    ForwardEmail is fantastic. Use it for all side projects.
    - ampdepolymerase 5y ago
      What is the economics of Forward Email? How are they able to afford such low pricing when other incumbents like improvMX and forwardMX are much more pricier?

m_x 5y ago

For the search use case, I use Firefox search keywords [1]. It avoids a useless redirection through duckduckgo ; I use duckduckgo bangs when I don't have a keyword configured. You can even add search keywords by right clicking on a search field -> "Add a keyword for this search". It works on intranets and internal knowledge bases too. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address-bar?redirectslug=Smart+keywords&redirectlocale=en-US https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

behnamoh 5y ago
This. In addition, you can use "Custom Search Engine" extension on Firefox to create custom search queries on Amazon, YouTube, etc. with keyboard shortcuts. For example, if I want to search for something on Amazon, I type "AA{space}USB Dongle" and it automatically searches the Amazon for "USB Dongle". The neat thing is that I customized the search URL so that "AA" also filters the results (shows only +4-star products, New, and Prime). I've done similar thing with YouTube where I type "YY{space}" from anywhere and end up searching on YouTube.

mikewhy 5y ago

It's not super obvious, but chrome and Edge already support a sort of keyword lookup for history entries. IE I type "github repo pulls" and the top suggestion is for "github.com/company/repo/pulls".

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

1cvmask 5y ago

Hello there. Your about page returns a 404.

ianwalter 5y ago
It does tell you something about them though, like the fact that they are using Next.js, haha.
scottfits 5y ago
oops thank you

knubie 5y ago

Great idea! This looks really handy. I just tried installing it but when I try to click "add command" or "see command" it just redirects to the home page.

scottfits 5y ago
this may happen if you don't have a user account signed in in Chrome? Jumprope needs an email to create your account. let me know if this is the wrong diagnosis.

muhammadusman 5y ago

reminds me of autojump on the command line, I bet this can be immensely useful if it didn't rely only on searching and bookmarking, e.g. "jira create 'user auth setup'" (this would create a ticket in jira with that title)

scottfits 5y ago
yes, i love autojump for terminal, definitely part of the inspiration for this. And I agree on adding more utility to create / edit - we are going in this direction for example jumprope has these commands: c1 new - create a new calendar invite m1 new - create a new email in gmail

felixmc 5y ago

facebook has something like this internally (bunnylol), everyone's browser uses an internal search engine by default that parses the query into commands that can take args and often route to internal tools, etc it's pretty neat, the open source version is called bunny1

scottfits 5y ago
yes! my time working there using bunnylol for everything was actually the inspiration for the tool :)

jayross2730 5y ago

About page is not found

scottfits 5y ago
thank you

andihow 5y ago

you can literally just do this with bookmarks and '%s' - for example set the bookmark destination to https://www.google.com/search?q=%s https://www.google.com/search?q=%s and set the bookmark's keyword to 'google'. you can now trigger a google search by typing "google [search term here]" ...after typing all this out i realize google is a redundant example but you get the idea

orliesaurus 5y ago

I love this idea, I would use this every day if it was native to my Android and Desktop Chrome, does the extension read/send any of my data anywhere? (Incl. Usage)

divbzero 5y ago

In any browser, setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine can give you the first four search examples featured in the home page banner for jumprope.ai: !fb elise d !drive resume !github APIClient !zoom.us standup DuckDuckGo does not, however, have bang shortcuts for Stripe or some of the other example commands.

purplecats 5y ago

oh god this sends every query to some third party server. hard no. just run a local server and allow configuration that way.

kissgyorgy 5y ago

Why is it controlling the "On startup" settings? I can't use it because of that.