Our whole team was editing URLs by hand every time we switched environments. So I fixed it.

Charmi Soni — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:48:23 +0000

It started as a team complaint.
Someone would be deep in a bug, need to check the same page on staging, and you'd hear the same thing every time - click the URL bar, delete the domain, type the new one, hope for no typos.

Someone else would do it wrong and end up on the wrong page entirely. Someone else would forget they were on prod and do something they shouldn't have.
It happened across the whole team. Every day. Dozens of times.

Nobody complained loudly because it felt too small to complain about. But small friction that happens dozens of times a day adds up fast.

So I built something to kill it permanently.

What Soft does
Soft is a Chrome extension that puts a small bar at the top of every page you've configured. Click an environment badge -local, staging, prod - and you land on the exact same path in that environment.

Query params preserved. Hash preserved. Everything carried over.

No copying. No editing. No landing on the wrong page.

The features
Path-preserving switch
You're on staging.myapp.com/users/123/settings and need prod. One click takes you to myapp.com/users/123/settings. Not the homepage. The exact same page.

Danger Mode
The bar turns red the moment you land on production. Pulsing warning. Hard to miss. Free and always on - because one accidental prod action is one too many.

Sticky Notes (Pro)
Leave floating notes on any page in any environment. Test cards, known bugs, credentials - right where you need them. Not buried in Slack. Not in a doc nobody opens.

Team Sharing (Pro)
Export your full config as JSON or YAML. One file, your whole team on identical setup. No accounts, no sync servers, no back-and-forth.

Who it's for
Any developer or team working across localhost, staging, and production. If manually editing URLs is part of your daily workflow - this is built for you.
Works on Chrome across Mac, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS.

Pricing
Free: 2 apps, 2 environments. Danger Mode always on.
Pro: Unlimited everything, sticky notes, team sharing - $6/month.

Early access
First 50 Users get 30% off Pro with code NEW30 at checkout. Valid for 48 hours.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dcfgbdenmbfijjioijidacabcpjebnlc?utm_source=item-share-cp

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

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Our whole team was editing URLs by hand every time we switched environments. So I fixed it.