You're deep in a feature. you're on:
localhost:3000/projects/123/settings?view=advanced
something looks off. you need to check staging.
so you copy the URL, open a new tab, paste it, manually change the domain, hit enter, land on the homepage because the path didn't carry over, navigate back to the right page, realize you forgot the query param, do it again.
45 seconds. gone. and you do this 20 times a day.
That's 15 minutes daily.
75 minutes a week.
Just editing URLs.
Nobody talks about it because it feels too small to complain about. but it adds up. every single day.
So I built Soft.
It's a Chrome extension that puts a small bar at the top of your browser. you configure your environments once - localhost, staging, prod. after that it's one click to switch. path carries over. query params carry over. hash carries over. nothing lost.
It also turns red when you're on production. so you don't accidentally do something stupid while you think you're on staging.
I got my first paid user 15 days after launch and developers using it across 12 countries.