My partner and I made a website to make us easily share links between our devices.

https://www.linkshared.io/

Backstory

Many times when we found something interesting and wanted to share a link from one's phone or laptop to her desktop so we can both watch it on the big screen, we had to send the link by email, or sent to her phone via some app and she had to copy the link from her phone to the PC, Or we have to download some apps, etc.. The process was really annoying.

Therefore, we decided to make a website that can allow people share link by simply visit our webpage.

How it works:

This webpage will hold the shared link for 2 minutes, for now, and people can share the link via a share code so other people can access the shared text.

Steps are very simple:

1. Share your text on the website.
2. Use the share code to get your text on other devices. If the text contains a URL, website will detect it and extract the link for you.

How we made it & Costs

• We used NextJS to implement both the frontend and backend API.
• We opened a free Redislabs account so we can host our cache.
• We used the free hosting service provide by Vercel.
• We brought a domain name on Vercel for $70/yr.

Why a two minutes limit?

1. We don't want to make a cloud storage.
2. We don't want to pay for a cloud storage.
3. In most use cases, this webpage just works like clipboard, so no long term storage is needed.
4. We don't want to pay for a cloud storage.

Why don't just use a chat app?

• We're using WeChat, their desktop version login is annoying.
• We don't like to download unnecessary apps in our phones and PCs, and people are using different apps, so a website can avoid installing unwanted apps.

We really hate the trend that everything needs an app to use nowadays.

Thank you!

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