EZR.me - URL Shortener

[hamheyelliot]

I think the .me domain is perfectly justified. Anybody who knows the slightest thing about shortening URLs will know that a short domain is part and parcel.

I really like the domain, you wont exactly find yourself too high up in search engines because the other shorteners are already so established, but you stand a chance by making good use of Twitter sharing etc. to help it spread into a close knit community of users who like EZR as a name.

With these kinds of sites, it's good to find a niche such as 'Shorten your YouTube links', maybe with 'easier' as a name you could encourage people to use it to shorten their social links, then the domain could mean 'Easier to find me'. Just an idea of how you could target specific people.

Best of luck with it, it's a lovely short domain and doesn't need a .com counterpart to work out for you.

[Fragma]

Cheers Elliot.

Any further feedback on this?

[Casio]

Nice script you used, can be viewed easily

[Fragma]

Nice script you used, can be viewed easily

Thanks!
I've just added an reCAPTCHA as well, as their were a few people spamming it.
Also working on a nice little template for it now in Photoshop.

[hamheyelliot]

Consider this badboy if you ever have the equivalent of 8 bucks to spare

[Fragma]

Any further comments guys?

[Recursion]

Nothing wrong with the .me TLD. Nice URL, good luck

[Fragma]

Thanks Recursion.

I'm currently in the process of coding a full custom script, so that it will be made 100% by myself. So far I've coded the basic registration & login system, and I have the basic URL shortening function down pretty well.. I plan on adding the following features to it in the future:

- profiles handling system
- AJAX interface
- API to create short URLs for remote services
- bulk URL shortening
- password-protected URLs
- temporary URLs (valid till certain date)
- custom tags for bulk URLs (automatically assigned tags like tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on)
- advanced URL statistics for registered users
- registered users can edit/delete URLs

I will also add a quick share feature, which will make sharing your links to the big social networking sites easier than ever.

This will probably take a month or 2 at least to complete, but it should be worth it I think!