nush.co, my URL shortener

About 10 years ago TinyURL introduced the first memorable URL shortening service that spawned hundreds of similar websites through the years. One notable frontrunner was bit.ly, who got rid of more characters from the URL by using a top-level foreign country domain.

Now with the introduction of the top-level domain .co, it’s my turn. Introducing http://nush.co/ my very own URL shortener. Writing a hash function to shorten my links looked to be a trivial task but instead I opted to use bit.ly‘s “PRO” service due to its superior link tracking goodness (as shown below).

Bit.ly Link Tracking:

For enterprise users shortening can be taken a step further by using a feature called “End-to-end branding” which allows anyone shortening a long URL with a domain you own (using the bit.ly service) to automatically be substituted your short URL ie. http://www.theanushka.net/2011/05/26/metrotwit-the-twitter-client-for-windows/ into http://nush.co/jnvJRt.

UPDATE: The bit.ly PRO service has been integrated into the standard account and now available to all users.