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Research: URL Shortening Services #33

Open nelsonic opened 2 years ago

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

As noted in https://github.com/dwyl/app/issues/284 we are building an internal link shortening service that allows us to retain privacy, stats and learning.

So we're going through the list: https://github.com/738/awesome-url-shortener and collecting UI/UX and features for our list.

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 Todo

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

First on the list is: https://t.ly Great domain. Crappy landing page with lots of ads that cover the content: image image

Seriously, who does this?! 🤷‍♂️ massive banner ads on the home page of your service! 🤦‍♂️

Anyway, this is their upsell:

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API docs: https://t.ly/docs/ Postman collection: https://t.ly/docs/collection.json

One Links: https://t.ly/products/one-links image

A couple of "reviews" from "Laura" and "Jessica" ... 🙄 image

Mentions automatically copying the short link to clipboard. Don't think we would do that, but putting a "copy" button next to the shortened link in the UI would be good. 📋

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

https://t2mio.com/ image

https://t2mio.com/pricing image

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

https://pckd.me/manage/ image

Sample: https://pckd.me/73bpjcb image

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

https://bitly.com one of the Original link shorteners from 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly now owned by Private Equity ... 🙄 image

https://bit.ly/3AZGH2A image

Pricing: https://bitly.com/pages/pricing

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Basically, to run a link shortener as-a-service we would need to offer domain registration and fully automate the deployment of an instance for the customer. But if you see their annual charge for the "Premium" it's pretty insane money ...

https://bitly.com/pages/why-bitly/integrations-api image

https://bitly.com/pages/resources image

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

One thing I've been reassured of while researching the UX of existing link shortening services is this: the URL doesn't matter nearly as much as you think it does. The UI/UX for (a) creating the links, (b) managing the links is what matters and (c) monitoring the engagement with those links is what matters.