Minifi.de – A URL shortening service
Without too much trouble, I put together yet another URL shortening service: Minifi.de (‘minified’, in the jargon). It does pretty much the same thing as tinyurl.com, bit.ly and is.gd – you enter a long URL and it returns a shorter one. I’m about half way done with the API (it works, so long as the URL valid), so if anyone knows of any clients that allow the user to specify a shortening service, I’d like to test that functionality.
At some point, I would like to make it account-based, so that you can track usage statistics and such, but that will only happen after I’m confident that the thing will survive in the wild.
So, feel free to give it a whirl, but know that it’s still in development and that I’ll probably have to wipe the database a few more times before I get it just right.
A little personal aside: my wife doesn’t believe in IM, so when we’re both on our computers and she finds a site she wants me to look at, instead of IM’ing me a link, she’ll shorten it and then shout the code at me, 2L or AF or whatever.