Show HN: Decentralized, fast and free URL shortener(w3.do)

2 pointsby jingles_dev3 anni fa4 comments

Show HN: Decentralized, fast and free URL shortener

https://w3.do/

4 comments

I found it interesting that you used nanoid for this, a very simple and elegant solution. Can you speak to why you made this so scaled down, and how you chose the domain name? I find that the main downside to shorteners is that the domain itself looks like something that would hack your computer, which means sending a shortened link to anyone who doesn't know the domain is followed by the question, "did you send this or were you hacked?"

KomoD3 anni fa

> I find that the main downside to shorteners is that the domain itself looks like something that would hack your computer

Then send the entire link?

neontomo3 anni fa

Yes, I do.

KomoD3 anni fa

How is it "decentralized"?