What about a trade-off between compound-ness and duration? If you want a 10-minute link, you really probably want something that's dead-simple to say like "zigg.be/fit". If its a 30-day lease, you might be willing to go for "zigg.be/greencatjumps" This allows shorter URLs to stay in a faster reuse pool.
Oooh, I like this idea a lot! Mind if I use it? I'll have a go at next time I get time to work on it.
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Go for it!
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#42Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links
#43Expiration on a url shortener means linkrot, which is the #1 problem with such services, so seeing this as a feature is a bit strange to say the least.
Zigg.be links (at least they way they are now) are not meant to be published. How do you propose I implement this with permanent links?
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#44Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links
#45This is actually smart!
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#46Now you just have to spell zigg.be to the person over the phone
I've acquired small.cat. There's nothing on there yet since I need to comply with .cat rules but that should be much easier to say.
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#47Expiration on a url shortener means linkrot, which is the #1 problem with such services, so seeing this as a feature is a bit strange to say the least.
Zigg.be links (at least they way they are now) are not meant to be published. How do you propose I implement this with permanent links?
They are links, meant to be shared, maybe published, it depends on your users behavior, not what you want them to do.
Even if they were only supposed to be private, what if my dad wants to find that Steve Jobs Bio again 1 month from now.
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#48Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links
#49I laughed for a really long time about the silent second g.