Show HN: URL Shortener Optimized for QR Code

What makes it "optimized for QR codes"?

Hi. Are you generating revenue from this? If not, please consider having an enterprise offering.<p>There are companies that are interested in this. We built something for a major company to send unique links to a customer base of 20+ million. They were blasting SMS offers and we helped them infer customer traits for next best offer, generate links, and send SMS using a template.<p>You can make it really appealing if you write an API for it so they can hook it to their messaging systems and blast messages programmatically.<p>Also, they wanted to have analytics (who clicked, from where, etc.)<p>If you never sold to enterprise, here is a short Twitter thread pinned to my profile[0].<p>Check out enterpriseready[1], too.<p>- [0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jugurthahadjar&#x2F;status&#x2F;1310668293305499653" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jugurthahadjar&#x2F;status&#x2F;131066829330549965...</a><p>- [1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enterpriseready.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.enterpriseready.io</a>

Confused about what makes this optimized for QR. Other shorteners such as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.ly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.ly&#x2F;</a> have a shorter domain and they have an extension that allows you to shorten a url then easily share the qr code <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.ly&#x2F;extension" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;t.ly&#x2F;extension</a>. They also offer an api etc.

can we get an Open Source version of this so that we don&#x27;t a) have to send traffic through your servers and b) hope that you keep providing the service and bandwidth indefinitely for free?

Very nice, how long the shortened URL will last? Is there a limit on the length of the URL?

It may be interesting, but the generated URL[0] seems pretty scary to click, esp since the QR code shows the same.<p>[0]Do you dare? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ku.ag&#x2F;xrjl6wr8i.ye" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ku.ag&#x2F;xrjl6wr8i.ye</a>

Somewhat related: What ever happened with the QR Code to url shortener patent lawsuits that were going on several years ago ... 2013ish I think? Is it still risking a lawsuit to use them?<p>Context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paperspecs.com&#x2F;caught-our-eye&#x2F;beware-the-qr-code-patent-trap&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paperspecs.com&#x2F;caught-our-eye&#x2F;beware-the-qr-code...</a>

Your service did not work as advertised. I asked for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ku.ag&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ku.ag&#x2F;</a> to be shortened but it got prolonged to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ku.ag&#x2F;5q6w9v1hnp*o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ku.ag&#x2F;5q6w9v1hnp*o</a><p>Also I noticed that you generate a new link each time. Why?

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Love it. I like that code is small, google lens recognized it faster then usual and site opened fast.<p>Kind of the code part ie. shortened url is weird and could use some humanization. But it is free, so it works for me.

Does anyone know of a (potentially hosted) shortener that supports deleting links and using your own aliases for them? Bonus points if I can use my own domain.

nice product and clean UI&#x2F;UX - only part I don&#x27;t love are the special chars in the URL. Browsers might be ok with it but people sometimes read URLs aloud over the phone or in person and could be easily misconstrued.