Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects the target from a list (rndmlnk.com)

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Creator here: A marketting buddy of mine wanted a scrappy way to redirect participants to one of 5 surveys, so I whipped this together for him.

charlieegan3 11y ago ↗

This is cool, looks nice too. Similar to a little app I have set as my homepage: https://github.com/charlieegan3/coincidental/blob/master/web... (http://coincidental.herokuapp.com/)

frenchie4111 11y ago ↗

Thanks!

That's a cool homepage. I might have to steal that idea :-)

charlieegan3 11y ago ↗

Enjoy!

frenchie4111 11y ago ↗

Made it here, doesn't have the same weighting yours does, stay tuned for that feature in Rndmlnk:

http://rndmlnk.com/s/random_hompage

elwell 11y ago ↗

Was going to say "Should have A/B style stats", but you already did it. I might find a use for this...

frenchie4111 11y ago ↗

Planned additional features are:

Custom weighting (80% here, 20% there), CSV Files (Or newline separated, depending), Round-robin option, instead of the current full random

virulent 11y ago ↗

This is pretty nice. I was curious how the spread was like for multiple links: http://www.rndmlnk.com/counts/testredirect2

side note, it was fun to see what the max redirects is in Chrome with the redirect loop.

frenchie4111 11y ago ↗

Was it 1000 :-P

Also I should probably stop it from referencing itself

virulent 11y ago ↗

not anymore :(

RKearney 11y ago ↗

For what it's worth, the short urls you generate are http://rndmlnk.com/s/<whatever> but requests to rndmlnk.com 302 redirect to www.rndmlnk.com. This adds an unnecessary redirect.

epicmosquito 11y ago ↗

Another use case: as a simple load balancer.

frenchie4111 11y ago ↗

Thank you!

jakeogh 11y ago ↗

A way to control the probability of each link would be useful.