Hopbar: Dynamic URL Shortcuts

About

Hopbar turns any messy, repetitive navigation into a single keystroke.

Press a hotkey on any page and a command bar appears in the center of your screen. Hopbar reads the page you're on, pulls the important parts out of the URL — a company slug, an owner/repo, a project or issue key — and jumps to a destination you defined, with those values filled in. No more hand-editing URLs or clicking through menus to get where you already know you want to go.

WHY YOU'LL WANT IT

If you work in a web app all day — an internal tool, a SaaS dashboard, GitHub, Jira — you probably repeat the same sequence constantly: copy an ID from the address bar, navigate to a different section, paste it back in, reload. Hopbar does that in one step. Type a short keyword, press Enter, and you're there.

The biggest gains come when one site holds many organizations or projects behind a URL slug. Stay on the same org and jump to a different function, or switch orgs entirely while keeping the same page structure — without touching the address bar.

HOW IT WORKS

Say your tool lives at app.example.com/{slug}/dashboard.
You're on app.example.com/acme/dashboard and you want reports.
Press the hotkey, type "reports", hit Enter — you land at app.example.com/acme/reports.

You set up shortcuts once, with no code, in a visual settings page. Hopbar ships with working examples for GitHub and Jira so you can try it in seconds.

KEY FEATURES

- Context-aware: detects the current site and pulls variables from the URL — path segments, query parameters, or a regex match.
- Dynamic shortcuts: bind a keyword to a URL template; Hopbar fills in the variables and navigates.
- Keyboard-first: open, search, choose, and go without touching the mouse. Open in the current tab, a new tab, a background tab, or just copy the link.
- Bookmarks and recents: keep your most-used pages a keystroke away.
- No-code setup: build rules, variables, and shortcuts from a clean settings page; import/export to share with your team.
- Multilingual: English, 中文, and 日本語 — follows your browser language, or set it manually.

PRIVACY

Hopbar doesn't request broad website access. It activates only on the tab you're on, only when you press the shortcut — never in the background. Everything stays on your device, syncing through your own browser account if you enable it. No analytics, no tracking, nothing leaves your machine.

Set it up once, then stop navigating the slow way.