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I really don't understand how shortening URLs is a viable business model? $10 million dollars is an enourmous sum of money to invest for something that provides
by shaggy 16y ago
I really don't understand how shortening URLs is a viable business model? $10 million dollars is an enourmous sum of money to invest for something that provides almost no substantive value. That money would be better invested in software that allows (forces would be better) to design sane and usable URI schemes.
- shin_lao 16y agoI agree. We built one as a proof-of-concept around our post-modern database engine. It costs orders of magnitude less than $ 10,000,000. I don't understand why they need that much money. We could probably monetize it (advertisement on the main page) to the point of not having it costs us money to run it, but since it's more a promotional platform than a business... (if you're curious: http://wrp.me/ http://wrp.me/).