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Ask HN: Building a url shortner, similar to bitly, can I make it profitable?
3 points by sagespidy 1159 days ago
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WallyFunk 1159 days ago
Similar to...?

https://yoslash.com/

Personally I just use https://yourls.org/

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mergy 1159 days ago
Yourls user for a very long time here. I don't see how you can make a new shortener profitable without injecting ads or other sacrifices into the functionality which degrades performance for folks.
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