This link shortener service. It's nearly good enough for public testing.

Finding a good domain name, though.... 😅

Short.link

technology.tech

or better yet:

goo.gl

Muchshorter.com

@irene rt doesn't exist and the other one is taken 😩 thanks for the suggestions though!

TL.DR

@irene bch.plz

@linuxxx li.nk
Sli.nk
Short.ing
Link.ing
gli.nk
Easy.link

Btw, where do you buy domain from? Wanna buy one.

When you realized that the word 'short' is longer than the word 'long' itself. *flies*

oi.io

oh.no
um.wtf
u.no
y.tho
li.nk
link.me
b.us
s.nl
os.hi
oc.rap
lo.lol
✂.io
linu.xxx
lin.xxx
privacy.cn
idk.lol

I have shrt.ml and shrtn.ml in my possession. dox me.

But, you already have it
https://lynkz.me

@namenlossss He already owns that domain.

@Condor TransIP or Gandi, definitely the latter. Privacy++

+1 for Lin.xxx. (Read like the word links) plus ya similar to linu.xxx

@namenlossss Doesn't really reflect the sites subject.

@PrivateGER how do you know? 😋

@Root ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ

Veryshortdomainurlshortenerservice.com

@Sawn Yeah but I'd like at least one other and more short one as well :)

short.ie

trnc8.link

And now I'm stuck on a regex, the last thing I need for this 😫

short.en

I own bu.tl.

With the loose, half hearted intention of using the URLs bu.tl/ook and bu.tl/isten someday.

short.af

.

boo.bs

ln-s.sh
ln-s.io

gim.li

With the slogan: You have my axe.

@linuxxx do you need help in regex?

@yendenikhil Already got some help but I'll keep you in mind!

Found a good enough one, not too expensive so will be registering when I get home 😊

It was a fun project for me. I hope you enjoy it too.

@bahua do you still use it? Is it API or website? Or both? Which tech?

@bahua Enjoying it! Going to try to launch tonight in the hope (hey, a man can dream) it will become popular 😅

@yendenikhil

Yeah, I still use it a lot. I don't know of anything that creates shorter URLs.

It's perl with a redis backend.

But no, I haven't written an API for it. Maybe I should.

@linuxxx and @bahua inspired me, I'm also doing that in free time, more of learning things than make production grade popular service like linuxxx aiming for, but even me and my family can use it, I'm happy! I'm making API based so I can attach front ends easily.

@yendenikhil Mine is entirely get request based with json responses :)

@linuxxx API. Nice, easy to integrate. But if it is all get based, then I would imagine your philosophy is give me a destination and I'll give you short url and you either fetch the existing url or generate new one if doesn't exist, is that it? Would I as user can request my custom url?

@yendenikhil You can generate a new one with lynkz.me/new/http://urletc.com

Then you get a json response which you can interpret and use however you'd like :)

@yendenikhil If it already exists you just get the existing shortened link

@linuxxx edit: rewriting all the things from GET to POST tomorrow so the thing above won't work :/

Apache and nginx don't parse urls right in get parameter form 😭

@linuxxx Hmmm, authorization required in lynkz.me ....

looking forward to it!

@CozyPlanes Yup, working with Apache on my laptop and nginx on the server so I need to test in production ;)

ti.me maybe?