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Link shorteners are important because the generated links to shared content -- at Dropbox or MediaFire or wherever -- are impossible to dictate or manually type
by fernly 10y ago
Link shorteners are important because the generated links to shared content -- at Dropbox or MediaFire or wherever -- are impossible to dictate or manually type.
Also, I've got a Pro ($99/year) account, so it isn't a free goddam service. Do you know of any free or paid cloud services that let you share uploaded files using custom, short, pronounceable links?
- viraptor 10y agoYour own domain. You only need to setup a redirect from my-awesome-stuff.com/the-app to whatever storage provider you use.
- fernly 10y agoOK, fair answer. I don't really want to own a domain, but that would be a solution: it gives me complete control over the form of the link, and makes it editable and redirectable.
- photogrammetry 10y agoYou don't need a domain for S3. It's usually something like mybucket.s3.region.amazonaws.com.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoUsing S3 does not solve the problem. It just postpones it to the unknown future.
- Cerium 10y agoLooks like you could do it with AWS pretty cheap: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/build-a-serverless-private-url-shortener/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/build-a-serverless-priv... Key part is that S3 supports redirects.
- steindavidb 10y agogithub pages might suit your needs.
- fernly 10y agoHuh. TIL. Reading further, thank you!
- fernly 10y agoIt looks very much like github pages[1] combined with github release support[2] will do the job. Thank you again for the pointer! [1] https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.github.com/ [2] https://help.github.com/articles/about-releases/ https://help.github.com/articles/about-releases/
- ChristianGeek 10y agoExcept at the rate GitHub is losing money there's no guarantee they'll be around forever either.
- 0942v8653 10y agoAdditionally you can use git.io to shorten any github.io or github.com link. It's not available on the website but their API also allows you to choose your own pronounceable name. Most names you could want are still available.