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Hey! Creator of Dub here! Appreciate the sentiment, also great point in the replies about link shorteners leading to spam. My plan with Dub is to keep this run
by steventey 4y ago
Hey! Creator of Dub here! Appreciate the sentiment, also great point in the replies about link shorteners leading to spam.
My plan with Dub is to keep this running at a sustainable pace for as long as possible, and I believe it's possible for a few reasons:
- Operating costs for Dub are quite low at the moment, thanks to Edge Functions (https://vercel.com/edge https://vercel.com/edge) + Redis.
- I'm leaning into the custom domains & self-hosted aspect with the freemium model – where enterprises and businesses would be able to get set up with a custom domain link shortener super easily.
- Agree that 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.