asyncgo VS share-links

I built something similar. It didn’t really work as a business (or at least I wasn’t able to make it work) so I open sourced it: https://github.com/async-go/asyncgo

If there’s anything useful there feel free to scavenge, or if you’d like to talk about what I learned trying to build it let me know.

I made an async work collaboration app: https://github.com/async-go/asyncgo

I had been working at GitLab, pre-pandemic, for several years and I saw how writing things down was almost like a super power to enable async work. If you start with time zone distributed teams, writing things down in issues/docs just becomes the natural way of working. I also saw that lots of companies didn't really get it - and there was a leap of faith required to try it, because it didn't logically follow that if you write things down more you can have less meetings.

My idea was to build something that provided a really natural place to write things down, and I built and tried to sell AsyncGo as a place for making decisions in a written way. You'd set a topic, a context, and a due date, and then the magic would happen. In theory. The problem I had was that I couldn't find anyone to take the leap and try it. Companies who were interested in async already had some similar process, and the ones who needed it didn't get it and I never found a way to communicate it clearly.

In the end I shut down the hosted version and put an MIT license on it. I don't regret it exactly, I learned a lot making it, but I wish it had helped more people. There's other stuff out there now that's sort of similar, and it seems they are struggling a bit as well, so I don't think the market was really there (yet).

> A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. You decide what constitutes “interesting”.

That's exactly what I did with share-links : It's a tool that allow you to easily store and share links of things you like on the web.

Here's the repo where you can find more info (see the file DEPLOY.md if you want to launch an instance on the web): https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links

And here's my own instance, whith over... 4000 links: https://links.l3m.in/

Want to be surprised? Open this link on a new tab: https://links.l3m.in/en/random/

Here's a (my own) lightweight alternative, built using django & no javascript: https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links

It allows you to store links (title & language of the page, a pdf of the page, assign tags, to include them in collections), it has a very simple (moderated) comment system, a lightweight ui (remember: no js), multi-accounts (permissions), translations, some rudimentary stats and some other things (access a random page!).

See my own instance for an example with thousands of links: https://links.l3m.in/

I don't think I have ADHD but I created a shaarli clone (https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links/) in order to be able to store, share and retrieve all the interesting link (the act of sharing interesting links happens more frequently now that I have a dedicated tool to store/retrieve them) :P

I did the same for a while, but it was a mess (700+ unsorted bookmarks on my main computer, 100s more on others).

I tried shaarli, but soon after I tried to build something myself, and I created share-links.

It's an open-source Django app that you can self-host, and that lets you store (and share!) links, titles, descriptions, and tags. Then it display them in a nice way (for me : not much css, a simple page with no js).

It took some dozen of hours to get to the point where it's really usable, and it still have problems now (comments are not moderated, I just realized that you can't add a description in links or tags, but I will fix this soonTM).

Here's the link of the repo: https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links/

One cool feature is to set your browser homepage to the url that loads a random page : each day I get a cool article to read/concept to discover!

That's my useless side project (because shaarli already exist and it's way more mature).

Not a full deploy guide (you need to have apache running & working fine), but I made a small tutorial for a bookmark-related app I'm working on on my free time: https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links/-/blob/main/DEPLOY.md.