Philip Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Hey guys - awjudd and I finished up round one of our URL shortener and are looking for feedback / testers. Right now it is pretty basic, but that's pretty much the goal for the site: minimalistic. The site: lnked.me Current features: Shortens URLs! Upcoming features: User accounts (view your previous shortened URLs) API for widgets / browser extensions Analytics on your URLs (how many people viewed, where are they from, etc.) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Awesome, will be using this for sure. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1340224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awjudd Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 As will I ... I already started using it on Google Plus ~awjudd Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1340297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Now with even shorter slugs (5 chars) due to popular request Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1340592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyph Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Seems to work, I'm not sure exactly what needs testing Looks good! If only I ever had a reason to mask a destination URL that wasn't related to sending co-workers to bestiality sites. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1341215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I'm a big fan of minimalistic, especially for a tool such as this. A nice simple design for a nice simple tool. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1341222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 @xyph - Mainly to make sure that we didn't miss anything (odd URLs, redirect stops working, etc.) So far it seems okay @Maq - thanks, I also love minimalistic designs and we plan to keep it that Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1341224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahngiel Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 Instead of clicking on submit and the button going away on the redirect, have you considered replacing the button with a 'Copy' button? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1342669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Yeah, we had discussed something like that, and tbh it is still on the table. The only reason we haven't implemented it yet is because 99% of the copy to clipboard scripts use flash in order to copy it. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1342684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
salathe Posted May 3, 2012 Share Posted May 3, 2012 that's pretty much the goal for the site: minimalistic. Great! About time there was one with out all the crud that no-one uses. Upcoming features: User accounts (view your previous shortened URLs) API for widgets / browser extensions Analytics on your URLs (how many people viewed, where are they from, etc.) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1342742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeBomb Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Simplicity is king. It looks nice and works without issue. Nicely done. My only suggestions would be an optional preview option for users and perhaps custom aliases. These are a couple major reasons why I prefer tinyurl.com over most of the competition. /2cents Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1343424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurrealScripts Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I've noticed this topic is pretty old but the website is still up so I guess it's an ongoing project. I would recommend so once a link is stored/shortened it should not be then get ANOTHER short url but instead have only the first one. I'm not sure how you've done this but if you're just using a database it really won't be very hard. Best of luck. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/261548-url-shortener-lnkedme/#findComment-1356759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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