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Biturl is still a very young website being officially announced on January 30th of 2009. I created this service for myself above anything because I was tired of these slow, bloated, url shortening services that in my opinion all just suck. My entire inspiration behind this project is “no bullshit”. All I want to do is enter a big url and get a tiny one in return. I really never expected anyone to use it, but a couple people on twitter have picked it up which led me to believe, maybe I got something here.
Here are some quick side by side comparisons of biturl’s site design and functionality versus the other url shortening services out there. All the clutter aka “bullshit” and unnecessary areas of the site are marked in red squigles.
Tinyurl
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Bit.ly
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Tr.im
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Poprl
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Hex.io
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And probably the worst offender of all is Ow.ly. Their front page its very simple and I would like this service but….
when a url is forwarded they put this ridiculously obnoxious toolbar on top of the site you want to view. Invasive much?
Though there are a couple sites who’s design I do like such as is.gd and twurl. My intention with biturl isnt to attract users, or make money, or even really make a great service with a ton of features, it was to make a simple fast service, and to keep it that way. A lot of people think its just yet another url shrinker and it is to some extent, I just wanted to point out the differences in biturl versus the others.
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