About

This website started with a research problem.

I was working on some research and needed to know the exact date and time a LinkedIn post was published. LinkedIn was showing a relative date, but I needed the actual timestamp.

So I started looking for a way to get it.

I tried different tools. I searched for different methods. I spent a lot of time testing things, but nothing gave me the simple answer I needed.

Then I found an article explaining that there was useful information inside the LinkedIn post URL itself.

That caught my attention.

I took one of the URLs I was researching and started looking at the long number inside it. After some testing, I figured out that the Post ID contained timestamp information.

Now I knew where the date was.

But I still had to get it out.

I decoded the Post ID manually. I converted the number, worked through the timestamp information, did the calculations, and finally turned the result into an actual date and time.

It worked.

The problem was that it took way too much time.

Doing all of that manually for one post wasn’t practical. And if I had to check dozens of posts, I would have to repeat the same process over and over again.

So I decided to build a small tool that could do it for me.

Then I Needed Some Help

Here’s the funny part.

I’m not really a coding person (I actually hate coding).

I can figure out what I want a tool to do, research how something works, and spend hours trying to solve a problem. But sitting down and writing code all day? That’s definitely not my thing.

So I collaborated with a developer who helped me turn the idea into an actual working tool.

Shoutout to him for putting up with me and helping make this thing real.

He actually doesn’t have any social media, so unfortunately I can’t link to him here. Sorry about that!

Once we had the tool working properly, we decided to make it available publicly and keep it completely free.

No paid plan.

No account required.

And we don’t collect the LinkedIn URLs people enter into the tools either.

We just wanted to put something useful out there.

Since then, I’ve kept working on the website whenever I come across another related problem during my research. That’s also how I ended up building tools for checking multiple post dates and finding dates from LinkedIn comment links.

My idea has stayed the same from the beginning.

Find something useful that is difficult to get manually, then make the process much easier.

That’s really the story behind this website.

I needed a solution, couldn’t find a simple tool that worked the way I wanted, so I worked with a developer to build it.

And then we figured it might save someone else some time too.

Thank you for reading.