Now you just have to spell zigg.be to the person over the phone
Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links
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#12Now you just have to spell zigg.be to the person over the phone
I'm working on that :)
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#13Worked fine when I just tried it. Question is, what happens to those snappy URLs when more than a few (thousand, million, billion) folks discover it?
Numbers or compound words?
/bananastand
/potato9
Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links
#14jazzychad made something similar a year or so ago http://shoutkey.com/
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#15It may be coincidence but are you choosing from a dictionary of real words or doing some clever Markova chaining? I am guessing the former - if so is there not an upper limit to total active links ?
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#16not overally consistent...
links are speakble - try to make domain speakable like short.be, better yet short.com (as everyone knows .com)
how one's supposed to know how many 'g' is there ;]
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#17How's the choice of new words from the dictionary complexity- wise?
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#18What 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.
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#19Worked fine when I just tried it. Question is, what happens to those snappy URLs when more than a few (thousand, million, billion) folks discover it?
Lots of ways to increase the amount of available permutations. for example, adding colors to the names (bluerose, pinkrose...) then even changing the position (roseblue, rosepink...).
Should be a solvable issue unless he gets really really popular.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do not think permament links on this would be a good idea simply because of the far smaller number of combinations.
Indeed, although namespacing permanent links would be doable, it wouldn't make much sense and other URL shorteners would do the job.
Permanent links for paying accounts perhaps?