CodeLink

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Hi Hunters and Makers 👋 I’m Jess, founder of CodeLingo. This is the story of CodeLink. I’ve been a software developer longer than I care to admit (most of my life, all of my professional career). In every team I've worked with, I've found team knowledge sharing and momentum gets slower and harder as the team and code base grows. In other words, as devs, we’re good at scaling up anything, except ourselves. This produced a passion (obsession? curse?) in me to help dev teams collaborate on code at scale. I’m devoted to unlocking the full potential of dev teams, who I believe are some of the most powerful groups of people in the world today. This passion led me to exit my career path and start CodeLingo: a software startup that builds dev tools for dev teams to aid knowledge sharing and collaboration on code. Earlier this year we added a feature to CodeNote, one of our tools (codenote.dev), to share a link to a snippet of code. I didn't think much of it at first. But then I saw our own devs starting to use it in Slack, a lot. Previous threads explaining what and where the code in question was, were being replaced with these direct links to the lines code. I took a look at what CodeNote features people were using the most and there it was, the most actively used feature: dev teams were consistently linking to code, multiple times a day! So we paused, listened and extracted this feature into its own dev tool. I present to you CodeLink: an easy way to share a block of code, the repo and commit - all in one simple link. This is something we wanted to share with you sooner rather than later. We see a lot of potential in how CodeLink can be developed from here and would love to get your input! What CodeLink offers: ⌨ Select lines of code and create a link to them from your editor 🔗 The link automatically opens the lines of code in VS Code or JetBrains editors (including checking out the remote repo and commit if needed) 📄 Unfurl the code snippet when sharing the link in Slack 🔎 Keep track of where the link has been shared in Slack and open up Slack to that thread 📝 LinkList will keep track of all the links you’ve created

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