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For the search use case, I use Firefox search keywords [1]. It avoids a useless redirection through duckduckgo ; I use duckduckgo bangs when I don't have a keyword configured.

You can even add search keywords by right clicking on a search field -> "Add a keyword for this search". It works on intranets and internal knowledge bases too.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

This. In addition, you can use "Custom Search Engine" extension on Firefox to create custom search queries on Amazon, YouTube, etc. with keyboard shortcuts. For example, if I want to search for something on Amazon, I type "AA{space}USB Dongle" and it automatically searches the Amazon for "USB Dongle". The neat thing is that I customized the search URL so that "AA" also filters the results (shows only +4-star products, New, and Prime).

I've done similar thing with YouTube where I type "YY{space}" from anywhere and end up searching on YouTube.

I've tried sending a mail to hello@jumprope.ai to apply for the firefox beta, but it gave an error saying "the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail".

In any case, good luck! This seems like something I'd want to use!

sorry, thanks i forgot to set that up. if you email me at scott@jumprope.ai i will add you to the firefox list

In case you are selectively forwarding mail, I’d suggest forwardemail.net Wild card or specify addresses. It’s been a game changer for me to centralise email across side projects and mini sites. Also fully functional on the free plan.

Too many solutions just didn’t quite work, or were a pain to setup. Losing email sucks, and not knowing you’re missing them leads to unnecessary paranoia.

ForwardEmail is fantastic. Use it for all side projects.

What is the economics of Forward Email? How are they able to afford such low pricing when other incumbents like improvMX and forwardMX are much more pricier?

There is duckduckgo bangs which has over 13000 custom site searches [1]. Also, you can write your own complex regex based replacements using Redirector [2] - the potentials are infinite!

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang

[2] https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

Thanks for pointing out bangs, it's definitely a good product too. I do think Jumprope has a couple legs up:

You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai without needing to submit them to ddg for approval

You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm" opens the company zoom link

but yes looks like bangs has some cool regex manipulation but hopefully Jumprope is easier to get started with.

Isn't that what bookmarks are for ?

I have a bookmark called "my issues" that opens jira with a custom filter where I appear, and another called "my merge requests" that opens gitlab with my open MRs. I can rename those bookmarks to be shorter, maybe "i" and "prs" if I want. My browser is configured to not show any search suggestions, so I literally type "merge<TAB><Enter>" and I'm on the list of merge requests.

Jumprope would give me the added benefit of sharing those with other people, but I like building my own configuration -- what makes sense for someone may be counter-intuitive for me, and vice versa.

if you could make it work offline that would be a big plus

If you're willing to get your hands a little dirty you may like bangin: https://sr.ht/~samhh/bangin/

But I can't type in the browser bar than right? hmm

edit: uh oh, i see: "With the use of bangin-server-node it is possible to use bangin as the search engine in your web browser. "

I'm about 90% there already with other hacks, just stuck to having + signs instead of spaces :)

My ridiculous way:

- https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

- some local-host open-search plugin meant for self hosted searx. Adds a bunch of junk parameters but searches on localhost:8888/q=SEARCHTEAM%morecrap

- set it to my default search

- some redicoulous regex trying to catch the search term after the bang !z

^(?:http:\/\/localhost:8888\/\?q=%21z\+)(.*)&language=en&time_range=&safesearch=0&categories=general

- same without the bang for fallback redirecting to duckduckgo

Hey y'all, I built this after working at Facebook and using the much-loved internal tool called bunnylol. You could do things like looking up users with commands like "id 124124512" to pull up a specific fb account.

Would love for you to try it out and give feedback!

Thanks for this. I appreciate this type of product and will likely use it. Right now I'm not able to because it doesn't seem to be playing well with Brave. Clicking add command takes me to the homepage. No add command functionality is surfaced.

One question I have is why is this preferable to creating these commands using the browser search engine integration directly? They support keyword prefixes. They support a command line like pass through structure.

i think this problem happens on brave because there is no user account and it needs to have an email to create the account.

there are a couple benefits to building it this way, for example sharing commands across an organization is now possible (so for example you can create a command and make it available to your company to use.)

for example, we use it at my company AirGarage to search django admin, open company zoom links, open reports, etc and if one person adds a command everyone can use it

Hey, congrats on launching this. Worked like a charm and overall looks really polished.

I'd be interesting in using this but if I understand correctly this works by replacing the search functionality which means all my searches go to jumprope. I am not sure if there is a way around this in chrome but for me it's a deal breaker.

thanks for the feedback! we don't save searches, but I see the concern and we may release an update where your jumps are stored locally in browser storage and only routed through Jumprope if its in the local jump list

I made that tool originally! This looks much more modern and polished. Excited to try this.

Looks useful but memorizing commands can be challenging. I'm guessing there's something in mind for this...

What is the AI aspect of it? (assuming based on the URL)

to be honest there is no AI yet - the vision is to have predictive suggestions, automatically open the first result on the page if beyond a certain confidence threshold, etc!

and yes, I do agree memorization is hard with more than a few commands. I am trying to solve it by adding jumps to the search suggestions, so when you type things like drive.google a search suggestion will say "tip, use gd to open or search google drive"

In any browser, setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine can give you the first four search examples featured in the home page banner for jumprope.ai:

  !fb elise d
  !drive resume
  !github APIClient
  !zoom.us standup

DuckDuckGo does not, however, have bang shortcuts for Stripe or some of the other example commands.

facebook has something like this internally (bunnylol), everyone's browser uses an internal search engine by default that parses the query into commands that can take args and often route to internal tools, etc it's pretty neat, the open source version is called bunny1

yes! my time working there using bunnylol for everything was actually the inspiration for the tool :)

It's not super obvious, but chrome and Edge already support a sort of keyword lookup for history entries. IE I type "github repo pulls" and the top suggestion is for "github.com/company/repo/pulls".

Great idea! This looks really handy. I just tried installing it but when I try to click "add command" or "see command" it just redirects to the home page.

this may happen if you don't have a user account signed in in Chrome? Jumprope needs an email to create your account.

let me know if this is the wrong diagnosis.

I love this idea, I would use this every day if it was native to my Android and Desktop Chrome, does the extension read/send any of my data anywhere? (Incl. Usage)

oh god this sends every query to some third party server. hard no. just run a local server and allow configuration that way.

Hello there. Your about page returns a 404.

It does tell you something about them though, like the fact that they are using Next.js, haha.

oops thank you

Why is it controlling the "On startup" settings? I can't use it because of that.

reminds me of autojump on the command line, I bet this can be immensely useful if it didn't rely only on searching and bookmarking, e.g. "jira create 'user auth setup'" (this would create a ticket in jira with that title)

yes, i love autojump for terminal, definitely part of the inspiration for this. And I agree on adding more utility to create / edit - we are going in this direction for example jumprope has these commands:

c1 new - create a new calendar invite

m1 new - create a new email in gmail

About page is not found

thank you

Looks neat, and similar to ddg's bang searches. I set ddg as my default search engine, and use it similarly, `!tw Joe Biden` in my Firefox search bar to search for tweets about Joe Biden and the like.

oh thanks for the heads up, yes looks similar. But Jumprope hopefully has a couple more perks:

You can create your own shortcuts at https://jumprope.ai without needing to submit them to ddg

You can also do alias commands - for example I set it up so "prs" opens me github pull requests page for example and "zm" opens the company zoom link

but yes thanks for the heads up!

how exactly do I create my own shortcuts? I can only see the landing page.

Perhaps your sign up did not work - you have to have a google chrome account with an email address and then install the extension here.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jumprope/peljbehfb...

if that doesnt work please reach out to scott@jumprope.ai and i will investigate

Recently switched from many, many years of DDG back to Google and I really miss bangs...otherwise, results are way better.

Why did you switch?

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