Let me give you some advice: The hard part about URL shorteners is not the coding work, it's keeping that thing up. You should keep it online for decades to com

Let me give you some advice: The hard part about URL shorteners is not the coding work, it's keeping that thing up. You should keep it online for decades to come, even if you just have a few 100 people using it. There won't be any revenue at all and most people will prefer bit.ly over your shortener. Sooner or later spammers will find your shortener and abuse the hell out of it. You will probably get blacklisted, maybe even dropped by your hosting provider. As for the urlteam stuff (urlteam member here): The best thing would be to just release a text file with all the short url to long url mappings. Make sure that the file is regularly updated and that it works (I am looking at you, ur1.ca people).