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First Project: Yet Another Link Shortener!
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- Name
- Keith Waters
- @readingwaters
First Idea: Yet Another Link Shortener!
Yep, you got it. I'm making a link shortener.
I forget how I landed on this idea. But I've been thinking about it for a while now and really want to build one. There are tons of them out there, which means lots of examples and endless feature ideas!
Another reason I like it is the basic premise is simple: take one link and redirect it to another. Which is right in line with the 3 projects in 3 months goal. (You can check out the other goals here.)
My hope is to start small and then be able to iterate on it.
Initial scope will be:
- User can sign up
- User can pay for the subscription
- User can create a shortened link
- User can view all their shortened links in a dashboard
Some stretch goals are:
- edit/delete links in dashboard
- a CRUD API to interact with the software
- custom domains for the short link
- some metrics, at least click counts
- ???
If you have any other ideas, let me know on Twitter!
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