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

#javascript #productivity #showdev #webdev

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.

From that moment on, every time you visit a configured page, the bar appears. Your environments are right there. One click away.

Here:(https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/soft/dcfgbdenmbfijjioijidacabcpjebnlc?utm_source=item-share-cb)

Danger Mode
Here's the feature I'm most proud of.
The bar turns red when you're on production.

Because every developer has a story. The migration they ran on prod instead of staging. The record they deleted. The email that went to real users instead of test accounts.

Danger Mode exists so you never have to tell that story.
It's free. Always on. No configuration needed.

The sticky notes thing (Pro)
This one sounds small until you use it daily.

Leave a floating note on any page, in any environment. Keyed to the exact URL and environment.Syncs via Chrome storage.

Test cards on your checkout page. Known bugs on the page where they appear. Credentials for the staging environment you always forget.
Right where you need them. Not in Slack from three weeks ago.