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linuxxx
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Always wanted to build a URL shortener. Guess what I'm building right now :D (next to working on a blog article)

Somehow this is making me very happy 😊

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  • 1
    Aye if its open source, can you please gimme the repo?
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    Me too! In asp.net
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    @sharktits Not yet but good idea! I am hella afraid of writing bad code though 😩

    @elcore I'm still a PHP guy :)
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    Dont forget, if you are afraid of something...

    then ya goofy lol
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    @sharktits the second I get this fucking Apache htaccess rewrite working I can finally start testing 😡
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    Haha one person's (Google) loss is another person

    's project idea :P
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    @smudo Maybe mine has it to become big 😊

    I'm also introducing a safe mode by the way. Convert thelink.com/hsi82bs to thelink.com/s/hsi82bs and you get the link it redirects to on screen :)
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    @linuxxx @smudo the site isn't thelink.com by the way :P
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    @elcore I'm more of an nginx guy and I'll convert to that soon enough but the htaccess 😍

    @Jilano Well, I'm quite far so if everything goes well, I can launch the dev version (no graphical interface) tomorrow or the day after :)
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    Isn't it just a mapping table stirred in a DB? 2 columns: short, original

    I guess for uniqueness could find some hashing Algo to generate the short from the URL... Or just the insert row number...
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    @billgates The table has about six fields I think :)
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    @linuxxx NoSQL? which ones did I miss?
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    Perfect in time for goo.gl to be shutting down!
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    @dawei Didn't even know that haha! Hope my service will become popular though.

    Don't think that will happen but eh, a man can dream!
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    @billgates Mariadb/mysql :)
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    @Jilano By the way, did you know that I launched it already? 😅
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