In the life of a crypto faucet lover, there is a ridiculous amount of choice, both in sites and cryptocoins. But the plenitude can be stressful and keeping track of the sites can be had hard and keeping them open forever can make it messy.
I was in such a predicament and stopped using some faucets to reduce the strain, but I have created an alternative, where I can still use all faucets, and they can be easily organized, and you don't need to keep dozens of tabs open or anything.
Method
The idea itself is simple, create a shortcut that can sit on your computer and, when you want to go to the faucets, it's a simple case of click & go. The example bellow is for windows, but no doubt that it can be easily converted for other OS.
The idea consists of creating a .bat file, where you list the sites you want to open, like the example bellow. It's extremely simple, all you need is notepad and write like the example, furthermore you can select which browser to open the sites with, by writing their name in between "start" and the site address. Don't forget to save it with the .bat extension!
@echo off
start https://publish0x.com
start brave https://binance.com/en
Beyond (Making it pretty)
Well the method is very easy, however the file will have the ugly .bat windows icon, and if you have multiple of these scripts it's harder to tell them apart at a glance (only differentiation would be the name). So I created an shortcut from each bat file and created a custom icon for each, this way I could create an icon that is related to the sites the file open and will be distinctive!
The icons can't be just .png files, but have their own .ico file type, for this I used a website iconconvert that converts images to the ico file type and gives you a few options with respect to basic editions of the image.
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:: Coinpot and related faucets ::
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@echo off
start https://coinpot.co/dashboard
start http://bitfun.co/offers
start http://bonusbitcoin.co/
start http://moonbitcoin.cash/faucet
start http://moondash.co.in/faucet
start http://moonliteco.in/faucet
start http://moondoge.co.in/faucet
start http://moonbit.co.in/faucetSo for the coinpot script, I just took a screen shot of the initial page and converted it to be the icon for my shortcut. Similarly, the I created a script to open all of the faucets from the freebitcoin.io, and used their twitter logo and the basis of the shortcut.
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:: @cryptofaucets ::
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@echo off
start https://freebitcoin.io/free
start https://freeethereum.com/free
start https://freebinancecoin.com/free
start https://free-tron.com/free
start https://freedash.io/free
start https://freeusdcoin.com/free
start https://freetether.com/free
start https://freechain.link/free
start https://freeneo.io/free
start https://freecardano.com/free
start https://coinfaucet.io/free
start https://freenem.com/free
start https://twitter.com/cryptosfaucetsThis way you can better organize the sites that you use frequently and with a simple click open all of them!
Conclusion
The idea here isn't much but if it helps someone then it was worth it, besides this can be done with any site, its just that the crypto faucet space is a perfect area for this type of thing.
Stay safe!
Referrals:
CoinPot faucets (DOGE, BTC, LTC, DASH, BCH, Bitfun, Bonus Bitcoin)
The @cryptosfaucets sites (BTC, ETH, BNB, TRX, DASH, USDC, USDT, LINK, NEO, ADA, XRP, XEM)
A very good faucet site FireFaucet
