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Comment · 10 months ago
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

Comment · 10 months ago
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

Comment · 3 years ago
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!

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Wow thank you, seems awesome!!!
Comment · 5 years ago
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!
Comment · 5 years ago
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

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
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I'll check if it's outdated, and I'll try to build my own system.

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Didn't know linktree, more user centric but really cool! I can't dream of half of their success but who knows ^^
Comment · 5 years ago
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...

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