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This tiny friction has stolen more developer hours than any bug ever will.

DEV Community·Charmi Soni·about 1 month ago
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There's a tax on every developer's day that nobody talks about. Not the big stuff. Not the architecture decisions or the deployment pipelines. The small stuff. The stuff that happens so often it becomes invisible. You're on staging.myapp.com/dashboard/users/123/settings. You need to check the same page on prod. So you click the URL bar. Triple-click to select. Delete the domain. Type the new one. Hit enter. Six seconds. No big deal. Except you do it 40 times today. That's 4 minutes of pure nothing. Every single day. Just moving between environments like it's 2005, and we haven't figured out a better way yet. I got tired of it. So I built Soft. Soft is a Chrome extension that puts a small bar at the top of every page you've configured. Click staging. Click prod. Click local. You land on the exact same path - query params, hash, everything preserved - in one click. How it works Install Soft, open the pop-up, add your app, and map your environment URLs. Takes about 60 seconds.…

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