Etheon

Dashboard and moderation. I created an admin dashboard to check users and lists and can easily delete / ban users.

Right now it's fine with the number of lists created per day

I created Multy 5 years ago. Thanks to a post on HN at that time, it was a small success (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870504)

Since then, I continue to maintain the website and I have around 50k lists, 8k users, and around 400€ MRR (ads and subscriptions).

I'd love to see more users, but I'm glad of what I did with multy !

If you want to check: https://multy.me

Thank you for your feedback!

That was my first idea, but as I thought about it I said to myself, what's the most important feature? Having a browser extension that can take a simple txt file from the web.

There are already some great tools for this (gist, pastebin in particular). Developing the infrastructure to manage the lists, although not very complicated, took a bit more time.

Here I have a simple html page to present the extension, the extension itself is hosted by Google (and soon Firefox, I hope...) and... that's it :)

But of course, if the idea takes off, I'll make it available!

Hello! This thread is no longer on the front page, but just to keep the few people still passing by, I finally created a browser extension! It completes the site :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/multy/

I'll send it to Google for Chrome as well

Wow thank you, seems awesome!!!

Thank you for your feedback! Yep you're right the link is a little bit small and users can easily miss it, I'll try to find a better solution!

Hmmmm this is weird, the metadata scrapper seems to have issue with twitter, it seems to work fine with any other websites I tried...

I'll check asap and try to fix it :) Thanks for the report

Well, I am looking for this type of tool since this morning ^^

I found several BL, mostly for email spam protection but:

http://uribl.com/ https://www.spamhaus.org/

The difficulty is to found how to work with the database and check each URI.

I found some packages on npm like this one : https://www.npmjs.com/package/dnsbl-lookup

But I have to test it thoroughly before putting it into production.

I agree. I found this package https://github.com/Planeshifter/node-spam-detector

I'll check if it's outdated, and I'll try to build my own system.

Thank you for your report, I'll try to fix the issues you mentioned. For the last one, it takes some times because I verify the metadata from the URLs, and check if the website exists. I don't know if it's a good idea but this is how it works right now. And this is why you see the target url with a 301.

I don't want users to do link cloaking on Multy and if people click on something on Multy, they are aware of where they're going. This is why I do that, and this is why I also want to integrate a domain blacklist.

People seemed to like the project, so I created a page on product hunt,I'll see how it goes ^^ https://www.producthunt.com/posts/multy

Didn't know linktree, more user centric but really cool! I can't dream of half of their success but who knows ^^

This is something I didn't think about but you're absolutely right. I need to find a solution to edit the list. In your example, if a teacher want to add something in the middle of the year or update a website, it would be useful.

If I don't want to add an authentication system, maybe with a token...

Thanks! And yes this is interesting.

For a few days now I've been thinking about an API system allowing users to create lists directly, without going through Multy. With a POST that would return a unique link to a JSON. This would allow people to integrate their own system to their site/application. If I had to monetize a part of Multy, maybe it would be this API, I don't know what you think?

Thank you :) Didn't know OneTab but it looks really useful for a guy like me with 100 open tabs.

I will check if I can create my own browser extension!

Ok I understand! Easier than I thought ;) Being able to have numbered links is definitely something I can do. I'll add that to my to-do list! It could be an option, not necessarily visible by default.

Thank you for the tips! I will definitely try that this week end and keep you updated.

I heard that a lot, but the impostor syndrome is always strong when you didn't do anything publicly before!

Thank you :)

So for example multy.me/xXere-1 and you'll be able to go directly to the link?

Well as it's one of my first "big" project as a developper, it can be scary, but my github project is public https://github.com/Etheonor/multy.me

Feel free to check it and I will be happy to have some feedback on my code. Since I'm self-taught, I'm sure I make big mistakes!

Good question and right now I don't have an answer... I thought about checking a blacklist before create any list but I had trouble to find a good domain blacklist.

We can always handle spam with checking IP / number of requests but it's easy to say ;)

Hey that's a great idea!

I never built an add-on for a browser so it will make a good challenge. Maybe for this week-end ^^

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!