LinksByYou

Description

I really like link previews in slack and these days even in text message chains. For various reasons I often have lists of links that I want to share with people or quickly reference and I liked the idea that they could be experienced in a newsfeed type way with link previews guiding the way.

Specifically for my kids, lists of youtube links where I render the actual player make a lot of sense. I thought that maybe I could build something that handled a wide variety of different types of links intelligently and it might be a useful little web utility.

Features

• Create a list, add some links
• Share the lists with others via URL
• Youtube links turn into player videos, other links render previews

Tech Stack

• NextJS hosted on vercel
• Firebase auth and firebase firestore for backend

Try it out

Live site

Example of using a redirect from https://bodhimusic.net/

Example list https://www.linksbyyou.com/lists/rwqAlr0B7K5xEuyG1xxq

Latest Updates

• 6/1/25 - It's very much just a POC. Sign up can only be done with google, the features very limited and the UI laughable.