Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?

Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new co... by sysbell on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:37AM (#17356369)

Internal URL shortener, every single time. They get rave reviews and in one case ended up being considered a core service that had to be up.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new co... by jamestimmins on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:42PM (#17359003)

Can you explain what the purpose/benefit of this is?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new co... by insomniacity on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:57AM (#17380596)

It turns a mess of internal sharepoint/wiki/confluence links into an easily memorable namespace that can be 'linked to' verbally or on post-it notes.

A common hostname is 'go', so when you launch some new programme, project or tool, you can put 'go/projectname', or 'go/toolname' in places like chat topics, email footers and presentation slides.

Applicable in larger places that end up with a mess of different documentation systems, and where trying to unify everything would be a waste of time.

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