Link As You Go

Like QR codes, but for any link

1 follower

Like QR codes, but for any link

1 follower

Link As You Go is an iPhone app that saves you from typing all the links you see around you on your phone. Just snap a photo of the link and the app will open it.

Launch tags:iOS•Productivity•Marketing

Launch Team

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The more you use it the more you need it

Pros:

So simple

Cons:

Need more links

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8yr ago

Hope Apple bakes this into iOS 12.

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8yr ago

Link As You Go

Maker

@theleovogel Me too :)

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8yr ago

Hustle Crew Academy

Thanks for hunting @gimly, love this concept. Can you tell us a bit more about how you came up with the idea and how it works?

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8yr ago

Link As You Go

Maker

@abadesi Hi, thanks for the kind words :) I was at a dev conference last year and noticed that most of the slides included links to examples or articles which were not trivial to jot down. So I decided to write an app to convert all my photos from the conference into useful links. I wrote an article on how it works (attached above) - basically, the app sends the photo to Azure OCR and gets back the text found in it and then it parses the links using a combination of the built-in link detector in iOS and some regexes for edge cases.

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8yr ago

Simple and nice app

Pros:

Simple and usefull app

Cons:

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8yr ago

How does this actually work?

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8yr ago

Link As You Go

Maker

@saifalfalah You can read about my motivation and how it works here - https://medium.com/@gimly/using-...

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8yr ago

@gimly Thank you. This is great.

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8yr ago

Sweep

I like this idea - pretty useful

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8yr ago

Link As You Go

Maker

@benmlevy Thank you!

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8yr ago

Rather than asking users to download one more app, why not provide this service through a chat interface @gimly Dimitar?

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8yr ago

Link As You Go

Maker

@ravsydney That is an interesting idea, thank you. I don't have any experience writing chat bots/apps, which would make it a bit more challenging.

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8yr ago