Built a Tool That Deep-Links to Exact Answers, Not Question Pages

The Problem That Wouldn't Stop Bugging Me Last year I spent 6+ years building HashiCorp Vault infrastructure at Expedia. Every week, the same pattern: Junior dev hits a Vault 403 error They search Stack Overflow They find a question page with 23 answers They scroll past 8 wrong answers to find the right one Next week, different dev, same error, same scroll The answer existed. The address was permanent — stackoverflow.com/a/38716397 . But nobody could get to it directly. They always landed on the question page and had to dig. One day I was looking at how Slack threads work internally. Every message has a coordinate: channel/p{unix_microseconds}?thread_ts={parent_ts} . The timestamp IS the ID. If you know the coordinate, you go straight to the message — no scrolling, no searching. I realized: this isn't just Slack. Every platform has permanent answer addresses. Stack Overflow: /a/{answer_id} — the accepted answer, not the question Reddit: /comments/{post}/{slug}/{comment_id} — the top co