7 Things About Deploy Checklists That Nobody Warns You About

I sent the same link to three Slack channels last Tuesday and realized I had zero way of knowing which one drove the 47 signups I saw that morning. Honestly, it was a bit frustrating because I had spent hours crafting the perfect message for each channel, and now I had no idea what was actually working. I was using a basic curl command to shorten my links, but it turns out that wasn't enough to give me the insights I needed. Why Manual Tracking Failed Me I was trying to track my links manually by appending a unique parameter to each URL, but it was a nightmare to keep track of everything. I would use a command like curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://example.com/link1 to test the link, but I still had no way of knowing how many people were actually clicking on it. I tried using a spreadsheet to keep track of my links, but it was hard to keep it up to date, especially when I had multiple people on my team sending out links. The Spreadsheet That Saved My Sanity I started using