@rrhoover@alexiskold funnily enough, when I first started working on Command, I actually called it Slash (without any knowledge of Slash). After showing it to a few friends, someone was like -- have you seen the company with the same name doing the same thing on mobile? Out of respect for them, I changed the name (though kept a slash logo!).
Hi everyone! The way we communicate is rapidly changing on the web. I think we've seen that evolution matched in our tools for mobile, but on desktop — where tons of us still spend time every day — it's been less speedy. I built Command after getting sick of having to go out of my way to communicate the way I wanted to in emails, Github issues, and on Reddit.
At first, there were two big things that always frustrated me: sending GIFs and speaking with Emojis. On every site where I wanted to use them, I had to do a prolonged process of keypresses, clicks, drags, and uploads to make them work. To solve the problem, I started thinking about different interfaces for simplifying those processes: unsurprisingly, Slack came to mind. As I built out the interfaces for what has now become /giphy and /emoji on the web, it started to feel obvious that there was room for even more expansion: next up were /spotify and /selfie, but I'm planning on building out a bunch more integrations (like /drive, /dropbox, /youtube and more).
I think if you give it a try, you'll find that using Command really does make the web better — let me know what you think!
Edit: Command is 100% free and open source and I'm looking for more contributors! Come help make the web more extensible :)
Hey @jessepollak, how does Command deal with the conflict that might occur if you have the Mixmax extension installed, since it also offers slash commands?
But, this is great! And super cool that you can add your own slash commands!
@chrismessina I hadn't even thought of this! I think the best way to fix this is to allow the user to customize what triggers Command (good thing I didn't name it Slash :).
I'm hopeful that some people will take advantage of the extensibility on Github — I've been trying to document it really well, so it's easy for new people to onboard!
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Nice work, @jessepollak! I think @jackyalcine might’ve shared this with me a few weeks ago, but I forgot to install it and test it out myself. I just installed it now and it’s great! I mainly use Safari though, so I hope you add some support for Safari soon.
This is awesome. Really great integration with other services. Maybe building in an options panel to allow whatever keystroke the user wants to call the commands would be helpful.
Hi everyone! The way we communicate is rapidly changing on the web. I think we've seen that evolution matched in our tools for mobile, but on desktop — where tons of us still spend time every day — it's been less speedy. I built Command after getting sick of having to go out of my way to communicate the way I wanted to in emails, Github issues, and on Reddit.
At first, there were two big things that always frustrated me: sending GIFs and speaking with Emojis. On every site where I wanted to use them, I had to do a prolonged process of keypresses, clicks, drags, and uploads to make them work. To solve the problem, I started thinking about different interfaces for simplifying those processes: unsurprisingly, Slack came to mind. As I built out the interfaces for what has now become /giphy and /emoji on the web, it started to feel obvious that there was room for even more expansion: next up were /spotify and /selfie, but I'm planning on building out a bunch more integrations (like /drive, /dropbox, /youtube and more).
I think if you give it a try, you'll find that using Command really does make the web better — let me know what you think!
Edit: Command is 100% free and open source and I'm looking for more contributors! Come help make the web more extensible :)
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