seantomburke

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by seantomburke 8y ago
We do plan on creating an API that will allow users to create links, and view links through integrations, but it isn’t built currently. That’s an interesting solution for resolution, but I can definitely see the utility in having the resolu
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by seantomburke 8y ago
It depends on each company, for example let’s say you have a link to a holiday party, you can create go/holidayparty and update that every year to the new page, or use go/holidayparty2019, go/holidayparty2020, ideally, you co
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by seantomburke 8y ago
That's actually a really good suggestion, thanks!
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Thanks! The functionality is definitely powerful at large scales. We want to provide a solution that companies can get started with right away, with zero setup.
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by seantomburke 8y ago
That's great! More companies need a solution like the one you've created, unfortunately, not everyone knows how to build one. There needs to be an easy way to access important links. Some companies will even save a Google Doc with
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Outages are definitely a risk every company encounters. Whether it's a third-party hosted solution or an internal solution, unfortunately, servers do go down. We run all our services on AWS which provides an uptime SLA of at least 99.9
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by seantomburke 8y ago
It's all about building trust with the company. We don't store or read any information on the sites you visit, we just redirect URLs that contain "go" as the domain, and provide a link for any "go/" links
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Pricing is always a tough thing to get right. If you look at Shopify's pricing page on the internet archive, you can see it changes almost every week since 2012, so it's something that all companies struggle with getting right. We
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by seantomburke 8y ago
These are all great questions. Security is definitely our number one priority, especially since most of our customers are large enterprises. In order to create a link, you must first authenticate with your company's Single Sign-on solu
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Good catch, we've been doing some price experimentation with user count and price, and I think that line needs to be updated.
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by seantomburke 8y ago
That's a great suggestion, our support page could include more technical details. It's long over due for some updates.
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by seantomburke 8y ago
We've actually curated a large list of the open source solutions on our blog. Find "The History of Go Links" article to see the full list!
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Stay tuned, we're working on creating a more granular permissions policy as this is a concern for many users. We can promise you that we don't store or read any information on the sites you visit, but of course it would make users
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Specifically, it's to resolve any go links that exist in your browser, but we plan to explore the partial permissions options to have the user choose if they want this feature enabled or not. This way you could install the extension an
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by seantomburke 8y ago
We're still experimenting with our ad strategy, but one of our target markets are previous employees of companies who have used to have a go link system. It just happen to spread to current employees that use a go link system, probably
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Awesome! Definitely a problem a lot of companies have. Great to know we can help out.
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by seantomburke 8y ago
We have a mobile application on the product roadmap, so stay tuned! For our business model, we’re focusing on making GoLinks integrate with all the great applications that you use everyday. We’re currently available in the Slack marketplace
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Yep, It’s in our terms of service, in the unlikely case something happens to GoLinks, we will provide you with all your links. But we plan on being around for a long time.
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by seantomburke 8y ago
You pretty much just listed out our current backlog. Great minds think a like! For the first item though, we plan to implement “tags”. The sub directory format actually causes links to be siloed under a specific subname, so if 2 links shoul
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Yep! This is a problem we've addressed by making everyone in the organization an owner. If a link breaks, anyone in the organization can change it, even if the original creator leaves the company. Checkout out our blog to learn more ab
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by seantomburke 8y ago
It's less of a link shortener and more of a link manager for companies. The concern that companies have with URL shorteners is they can't manage who is creating these links, and who owns these links. With GoLinks, the company will
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Yep, that's correct! That works assuming you have access to setup subdomains for contoso.com. We make it easy for any employee, technical and non-technical, to update and create links.
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Always happy to see go links being used at other companies! You can actually take this a step further at Eligrey. By setting up a DNS Entry that redirects go.eligrey.com to the domain go you would then allow your links to become conversatio
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by seantomburke 8y ago
This is definitely a real concern, and we're actually exploring the Chrome permissions to see if it's possible to redirect your traffic, without requiring the "Read all data" permission, because you're right, that s
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by seantomburke 8y ago
To address the first concern, anyone in the company can modify any link, so they will never go stale. We do this to solve that exact problem where documentation may contain dead links. With GoLinks your links will always be up to date as lo
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Awesome work! We love to see go link enthusiasts! There are a ton of good open source golinks systems out there, we just want to give users a full suite of golinks with zero setup :)
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Great question, and it’s a common question we get a lot. Bit.ly allows you to shorten links in marketing campaigns, and is meant for public use. GoLinks is used to make links memorable and conversational and is private, so it can only be us
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by seantomburke 8y ago
Thanks! Let us know if you have any feedback
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by seantomburke 8y ago
I have been searching and waiting for someone to build this! Thank you so much! Currently reviewing code is a guessing game. "Does it actually do what it's supposed to do? I don't know but the code looks sound." I have o