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I ran a variation of something like this myself for years. Eventually, the site was routinely being used for spam-style (e.g., a link to some illegal data, or s

I ran a variation of something like this myself for years. Eventually, the site was routinely being used for spam-style (e.g., a link to some illegal data, or some advertisement to embed somewhere, etc.) links. And when I took the site down, my users asked me for help to transition away from this service that they were uniquely relying on. It was a mess. See goo.gl. I wonder how you prevent your service from being used inappropriately and how you handle the eventual costs

steventey 4y ago
Very good point re: goo.gl My plan here is to lean into the custom domains & self-hosted aspect – where enterprises and businesses would be able to get set up with a custom domain link shortener super easily. Individual short links are definitely not sustainable in the long run, I might set a rule where randomly-generated links > 30 days get deleted, to save it you'll either need to make an account (to prevent spam) or set up your own domain.