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maskys commented on Parents' income, not smarts, key to entrepreneurship   jpost.com/israel-news/par... · Posted by u/markyc
maskys · 5 years ago
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maskys commented on Show HN: I built Multy – Generate a short URL to share a list of websites   multy.me/... · Posted by u/Etheon
Etheon · 5 years ago
Hello HN :)

For the record, I learned how to code less than 2 years ago, next to my full time job.

I rarely have the time to complete a side project, so I challenged myself to make a functional website in a weekend.

The idea was simple, to be able to create a short URL to share a list of websites. It's not revolutionary, but I was surprised not to find more sites to do that. Bit.ly had such a system a few years ago called "Bundles", which they shut down.

I often see interesting lists on Twitter or in articles, but keeping track of all this is sometimes complicated. That's where I got the idea.

So I created Multy over a weekend and was thrilled to see that I could make a functional site, no matter how small, in such a short period of time.

I still have a lot of ideas to improve it, such as adding private links, or a very simple statistics system. I would like as much as possible not to create an authentication system and keep the concept as simple as possible. I haven't necessarily thought about monetization, but there may be some ideas! I didn't create it to make a fortune anyway.

I would like to have your opinion on its current version, and on the evolutions I could bring to it.

Thank you for reading me and taking the time to test Multy!

maskys · 5 years ago
Awesome first project; if you need those other features you mentioned you could just use pastebin.com iirc

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