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Show HN: Internal URL Shortener

2 points by ronakkhunt 1y ago

ronakkhunt 1y ago
While working in Tech industry, I was always spending lot of time looking for a links/urls to various documents, dashboards, repo etc. I always knew there was a document about that thing (“what”), but I do not know where it was. Lost in an email? slack messages? another document ? That’s when I came across Go Links at one of my company. It allowed me to convert some of the long, complicated links to very short, easy-to-remember links. For example, I can turn this long link >https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YlD4iif7dodFT_CiRjkaYxqgRdg1Yf8bj0ij7oddU4w/edit?tab=t.0 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YlD4iif7dodFT_CiRjkaYxqg... into something like > go/project This was mind blowing for me, as when I first came across such set-up. I did not know how it was implemented but something at the network level and it worked only on VPN of the company — but it was very useful *There was only one challenge* Sometimes I would even forget this short link, I would remember parts of it, but not the whole link. This happens due to the fact the not all short link will be like “go/project”. In reality it would be bit more complex like go/team/objectives-2024 go/project-new-ideas *That’s when I got an Idea* What if, we make these link searchable? that would be amazing! So I started working on an idea, I thought there must be many people like me who would want to get better alternative to find their links & tabs they want to open. More importantly not everyone can do the set-up themselves, they might not all be as technical. *Birth of the SimpleURL* So I built a Chrome extension that would allow the same functionality that I needed - Way for me to create Short Link e.g “go/project” and search them afterward if I forget - No more wasting time to look for links As I started using the extension, I realised I am being very efficient everywhere and less frustrated - Find a link in the meeting — go/objectives, go/obj-2025 - Find 1:1 meeting notes just with name of the person —go/ronak, go/john - Personal meeting links — go/talk-to-ronak - Links grouped and organised in the way that my brain remembers e.g. team/objectives, team/roadmap, team/onboarding

2 points by ronakkhunt 1y ago

While working in Tech industry, I was always spending lot of time looking for a links/urls to various documents, dashboards, repo etc. I always knew there was a document about that thing (“what”), but I do not know where it was. Lost in an email? slack messages? another document ? That’s when I came across Go Links at one of my company. It allowed me to convert some of the long, complicated links to very short, easy-to-remember links. For example, I can turn this long link >https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YlD4iif7dodFT_CiRjkaYxqgRdg1Yf8bj0ij7oddU4w/edit?tab=t.0 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YlD4iif7dodFT_CiRjkaYxqg... into something like > go/project This was mind blowing for me, as when I first came across such set-up. I did not know how it was implemented but something at the network level and it worked only on VPN of the company — but it was very useful *There was only one challenge* Sometimes I would even forget this short link, I would remember parts of it, but not the whole link. This happens due to the fact the not all short link will be like “go/project”. In reality it would be bit more complex like go/team/objectives-2024 go/project-new-ideas *That’s when I got an Idea* What if, we make these link searchable? that would be amazing! So I started working on an idea, I thought there must be many people like me who would want to get better alternative to find their links & tabs they want to open. More importantly not everyone can do the set-up themselves, they might not all be as technical. *Birth of the SimpleURL* So I built a Chrome extension that would allow the same functionality that I needed - Way for me to create Short Link e.g “go/project” and search them afterward if I forget - No more wasting time to look for links As I started using the extension, I realised I am being very efficient everywhere and less frustrated - Find a link in the meeting — go/objectives, go/obj-2025 - Find 1:1 meeting notes just with name of the person —go/ronak, go/john - Personal meeting links — go/talk-to-ronak - Links grouped and organised in the way that my brain remembers e.g. team/objectives, team/roadmap, team/onboarding