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Ask YC feedback: Simply create a single URL from multiple URLs

fuseurl.com

30 pointswave27 comments

Nice simple idea. This is surely useful when you want to send several URLs to someone. For me, this is rather an edge usecase during my web-activities. So I'm not sure if this has potential to be monetized somehow.

Thanks for all your comments. Relative to how simple it was to create, I thought it worth to put it out there and see if people like it.

[edit]See how it can also be used. See the second comment: http://digg.com/travel_places/Top_Ten_Transportation_Photos

It would probably be best to monetize it as you would proxy site. With Adsense and a few affiliate banners. Then once traffic gets up a bit flip it on sitepoint.

Ew, how unimaginative. I think it's probably more clever to exploit the fact that people are associating sites with each other - if someone is interested in one, they'd be interested in the others. Maybe start a web search?

And/Or, this would be a very useful way of using humans to relate URLs to each other with an explanation of what the relation is. I'm not well-versed on the current state of AI but I think this sort of activity is still something that is too complex to get computers to do well and efficiently.

And you would monetize that how?

volume! economies of scale!

I'd avoid using the term 'newline' in the description. Maybe something like "Enter URLs, one per line". Newline seems like a developer term.

I created Fuseurl to simplify sharing multiple URLs. Instead of posting or emailing 10 different URLs, you can just create a single URL and share it. I got the idea when I wanted to text message someone multiple URLs. The site can also be used to create a quick reference to your favorite websites.

I appreciate any feedbacks you have.

You could be more creative when displaying multiple pages.How about tabs instead of putting one under another?

Widgets and Firefox extensions spring into mind, given the concept.

Useful app nonetheless.

I agree with the tabs. Would make it a lot easier to navigate. Other than that, I disagree. I can't see this being very useful IMO.

tabs requires concentration and clicking; scrolling is always the best option

wave - Very very nice idea. Good execution, great concept. I often have to do this, and hats off to you, coz I did not think of this.

One small suggestion, and I might be splitting hairs here, but maybe make the tabs on the top a little more prominent. I missed it the first time around. Nothing that you need to take care of, I just figured I would pen it down.

I also see that you are not checking the url to see if its valid (which is fine). It does bring up one problem and that is if I link to three HM links, they all show up as the same name in the tab. Maybe give an option to name the tab... ?

Update - Woops, ca98am79 had the same suggestion as me. Sorry. Did not see that prior to posting my comment

I had a code to check for a valid url, but removed it because I didn't think it was really necessary. I just want to make it faster and simpler

It is nice - the only thing I would suggest is that if I'm creating a fuse of many pages on one site, all of the links on the top just have the site name and no way to distinguish. For example, this fuse : http://fuseurl.com/2w just has 'news.ycombinator.com|news.ycombinator.com' at the top - a way to manually change the titles to these links would be nice.

I see that you've rediscovered trails and incorporated it into URL shortening service which uses frames to navigate through the trail. As the author of uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177441 ), I might be biased, but I like it. You may want to get a .se domain to make the URL shorter. You may want to map resource IDs to letters for easier typing on mobile telephones.

Nice and simple. Open All is nice (except that (tabs) doesn't work.) Good support for back/forward.

Take a look at Trailfire ( http://www.trailfire.com ). They do some interesting stuff with the same idea, but allow comments in places and stuff.

It's not really obvious to a non-technical user that there are multiple pages going on there. Not sure how you would make that more clear, but the links at the top don't quite do it.

You should also create a link to an example page, already populated with multiple urls choosen by you, just to demonstraste the service.

Bonus points if it involves downforeveryoneorjustme.com and validator.w3.org ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=153995 ), uggc.cgi ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=177478 ) and y.soho.lt

Cool - One thing I'd fix is the horizontal scrollbar (I'm getting it at 1024x768)

somethings wrong with your layout, on my macbook (13.3") on firefox i can't get down to the sample links, i had to make the text smaller

Very nice, thanks.

nytimes.com busts out of the frame.

Also, as a further point.

If you're going to the trouble of going to a site, copy-pasting all these into a form, clicking a button, then emailing that..

wouldn't you save more time, really, just emailing the list?

Thank you for your comment. As it was mentioned, this wasn't to be used just during emailing but it can also be used during texting, chat session and posting comments

Augh. Frames.

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