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It's true that URL shorteners use has changed how it was used a few years back but it's still very relevant. One very good use case of link shorteners is marke

It's true that URL shorteners use has changed how it was used a few years back but it's still very relevant. One very good use case of link shorteners is marketing & sales campaigns. A lot of marketing companies like to share short and branded custom links on social media and later check the click and other stats to see the conversion rate. I have also seen companies using URL shorteners for internal link sharing. I have two real cases where my project is used are: - One of the schools in Spain uses the project website(pygy.co) for creating secret links and sharing with students in school competitions. They share the password with the winners(I received an email from them). - One of the company is China has forked the project and are using it. Anyhow, I created this as a personal project for learning purpose but I can see it's use cases.

Rjevski 8y ago
> A lot of marketing companies like to share short and branded custom links on social media and later check the click and other stats to see the conversion rate. True, but as an user it does not serve me (quite the contrary actually, as it invades my privacy), so my point (and habit) of never clicking into shortened links still stands. I’m actually surprised brands would prefer shady-looking links over linking to their own domain directly. Not to mention, you can do analytics server-side on the page you’re linking to without having to have an intermediary system & extra redirect. > Anyhow, I created this as a personal project for learning purpose but I can see it's use cases. Quite impressive actually, seems very feature-complete and well built. Keep up the good work!
- bspammer 8y ago
  Just to add on, sometimes it's useful to be able to link to large query strings without large numbers of characters in situations where there's no way to copy and paste (for example any form of print media). Many internet giants have set up their own link shorteners for this very purpose: see https://goo.gl/ https://goo.gl/ and https://t.co/ https://t.co/

Rjevski 8y ago

> A lot of marketing companies like to share short and branded custom links on social media and later check the click and other stats to see the conversion rate. True, but as an user it does not serve me (quite the contrary actually, as it invades my privacy), so my point (and habit) of never clicking into shortened links still stands. I’m actually surprised brands would prefer shady-looking links over linking to their own domain directly. Not to mention, you can do analytics server-side on the page you’re linking to without having to have an intermediary system & extra redirect. > Anyhow, I created this as a personal project for learning purpose but I can see it's use cases. Quite impressive actually, seems very feature-complete and well built. Keep up the good work!

bspammer 8y ago
Just to add on, sometimes it's useful to be able to link to large query strings without large numbers of characters in situations where there's no way to copy and paste (for example any form of print media). Many internet giants have set up their own link shorteners for this very purpose: see https://goo.gl/ https://goo.gl/ and https://t.co/ https://t.co/