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SurpriseFlow
Redirect one domain to another domain, with SSL enabled
SurpriseFlow lets you create easy domain redirects with HTTPS enabled via auto-configuration of SSL. All you need to do is add the required records to your existing DNS service and voila, your domain redirect is ready!
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Hello, everyone! The story is that my company bought a .com domain name for our product. As we don’t want to do a full switch over to the .com domain at the moment, I thought the best way to use it would be to redirect it to the current .io domain name. Surprisingly, this was actually a more complicated process than I imagined. When I was just using the DNS, the domain forwarding worked fine for HTTP redirects. The issue was with SSL redirects. For example, http://domain.com → http://domain.io [worked] http://domain.com → https://domain.io [worked] https://domain.com → https://domain.io [didn't work] It kept returning the dreaded SSL not secure error. Eventually giving up trying to do this with just the DNS, I wrote a Netlify dummy website and created a redirect built into the configuration, and got SSL working. I found out that Google Domains does SSL domain forwarding for free when your domain is registered with them and there are other DNS services like DNSimple that charge a fee for SSL redirection. With Google Domains going away, I'm not sure it's going to be as reliable. I thought, you know… maybe there needs to be a service that allows you to do domain redirection with SSL auto-configured and all you’d need to do is add a few records to your existing DNS service. So, I built a service like this called SurpriseFlow and it solves all the problems I’ve mentioned above. Further, I've added a selector for whether the redirect should be permanent or temporary so that you can control the effect it has on SEO. I’m honestly not sure if this service is actually required or if I’m missing some massive industry plot point—I’m open to being educated further! For now, this product exists and yeah, I’m open to feedback. Let me know what you think! :)
About SurpriseFlow on Product Hunt
“Redirect one domain to another domain, with SSL enabled”
SurpriseFlow launched on Product Hunt on July 11th, 2023 and earned 84 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #41 on the daily leaderboard. SurpriseFlow lets you create easy domain redirects with HTTPS enabled via auto-configuration of SSL. All you need to do is add the required records to your existing DNS service and voila, your domain redirect is ready!
On the analytics side, SurpriseFlow competes within Marketing, SEO and SaaS — topics that collectively have 542.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how SurpriseFlow performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted SurpriseFlow?
SurpriseFlow was hunted by Quinston Pimenta. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of SurpriseFlow including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.