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Show HN: weakurl.com super simple urlshortner (weakurl.com)
3 points by rickchendesign 5131 days ago
All this rukus about bit.ly. I tried to make my own url shortener and I am coming for bit.ly. Lol. Looking for some feedback!
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akkartik 5128 days ago
I pasted in weakurl.com. Response: weakurl.com/2. Wouldn't it be shorter to just return the url? :D
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rickchendesign 5125 days ago
lol
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gordian 5131 days ago
Nice! Simple and to the point. Also makes very short URLs. How long can that last, though?
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rickchendesign 5131 days ago
Lol probably not for along time, What if I just blew away the db every month or so? Leaving dead links everywhere?
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gordian 5130 days ago
Depends on how the links are created. If they traverse combinations as they become available then it could be nice. Right now they may be just adding one random lowercase letter, then when those are all used up they switch to one uppercase letter. Then two character combinations until those are used up, etc., etc. Nice idea...
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