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Huh. This is a thing I've seen at a few companies now and never seen reference to them coming out of Google. It makes sense, but it's also completely standalone

• willnorris 4y ago
  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.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/ https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story
  • Thorrez 4y ago
    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.
    • whatgaul 4y ago
      Original author of https://github.com/trotto/go-links https://github.com/trotto/go-links here! We spoke with Benjamin directly, so I trust his recollection.
• dilyevsky 4y ago
  It was one of the most popular “mini-services” at google along side less useful things like percent/ (which shows your tenure percentile), memegen and bunch of others, maintained by like a single engineer on the side. These were (at least to me) what was so great about Google’s early engineer-driven culture. It was like the early web app age in a sense…