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What features would you offer with a URL shortener?
I recently launched a url shortener as a 'bit of fun' more than anything. It took less than 4 hours of my time and $100 of my money to build and bring to market.
I'm now wondering what features I should add to make it more attractive and interesting to use. Interested to hear Hacker News' users thoughts!
UPDATE: thought I should add that I already have a REST API and that I'm working on making the entire database of key/value pairs available. Wondering what to do after that.
Thanks,
Ben
- mahmud 17y agoWhat exactly cost you $100? domain: $10 VPS: $20 Did you pay $70 for design? :-P For a URL shortner, I would like the ability to see a screenshot (a la "webshots") of the target URL along with the expansion, before I am redirected. This will absolutely make your service useless to the type of people who use shortening most often; affiliate marketers.