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by octavore
3159 days ago
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Hi HN! Inspired by the internal URL shorteners that many large tech companies seem to have (commonly known as go links), I wanted to try my hand at building a hosted version of the same so the rest of us can have this organizational superpower too. goatcodes.com is a private URL shortener for teams. Links you shorten will only work for others on your team. The short domain is https://ga.tc. It's a pretty basic service right now, I'd love feedback on what features you would find useful. Thanks for looking! |
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I'm thinking someone can use Googles URL shortener instead, and share the resulting links within the team only — that'd give the same effect?
If the destination page is truly secret, then the company ought to have other access control features anyway I think.
I'd be worried that you go out of business soon and all links will break.
You can get more feedback here: https://usability.testing.exchange (it's a free & open source side project I'm doing). You can edit the question text and ask for feedback about the overall idea, and what other features people might want.
Book tips: http://www.startupwerkboek.nl/startupcenter/Momtest.pdf (the first parts are free & the most important ones). This book helps you find out, before you start writing code, if the underlying idea is something people want / need. (People, including I, sometimes do the mistake to start writing code, too early, before they know if the underlying idea is a good idea.)
Anyway I wish you good luck with this, and sometimes in the end everyting turns out to have been a good idea (even if the project didn't take off), just because of everything one learned, whilst doing it :- )