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HyLink
A tiny hover menu for links. No tracking, no telemetry.
Hover a link in a page’s text and HyLink shows a small menu. Open the link in a new tab, a new window, or incognito. Tile it in a side window to read two pages at once. Copy the link clean, with tracking parameters removed. The menu stays hidden on nav bars, headers, and sidebars, so it does not get in your way. Choose the actions you want, set the hover delay, and turn it off on any site. Open source, MIT licensed. No data leaves your browser: no tabs permission, no telemetry.
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Abhijit, maker of HyLink.
I built it because I open a lot of links while I read. Each time I had to right-click, scan a long context menu, and pick an item. For side-by-side reading, I had to drag windows around by hand. I wanted one small menu that appears when I hover a link in the text, and stays away when I read.
HyLink does that. Hover a link and you get up to eight actions: new tab, new window, incognito, side (right), side (stacked), copy clean link, copy address, and open. “Copy clean link” strips tracking parameters, and opened links are cleaned by default. The menu does not show on nav bars, headers, or sidebars unless you hold a modifier key. You choose the actions, their order, and the hover delay, and you can turn it off per site.
Privacy was a hard rule. HyLink asks for storage, system.display, and activeTab only. It does not request the tabs permission, reads nothing but the link you hover, and sends no data anywhere. It is MIT licensed, and the UI is translated into ten languages.
I would love your feedback: which action do you use most, and what is missing? Thanks for checking it out!
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About HyLink on Product Hunt
“A tiny hover menu for links. No tracking, no telemetry.”
HyLink was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. Hover a link in a page’s text and HyLink shows a small menu. Open the link in a new tab, a new window, or incognito. Tile it in a side window to read two pages at once. Copy the link clean, with tracking parameters removed. The menu stays hidden on nav bars, headers, and sidebars, so it does not get in your way. Choose the actions you want, set the hover delay, and turn it off on any site. Open source, MIT licensed. No data leaves your browser: no tabs permission, no telemetry.
HyLink was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.8k followers), Productivity (663.6k followers), Privacy (11.4k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 229.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted HyLink?
HyLink was hunted by Abhijit Gore. 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.
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