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Taking on Bit.ly bootstrapped - Tim Leland, T.LY

Indie Bites

CHAPTER

How to Build a Link Shortener Extension That Makes Money

The first time you sort of dipped your toe into link shortening as an extension was I believe in 2017 looking at this. Yeah, so I had the weather extension and it was doing well and I thought what if I just create five other extensions that make a couple thousand dollars a month? And then Google announced they were shutting down their service. So I knew, okay, all this million plus user base is going to go looking for an alternative. That's kind of what I set out to do back in 2017.

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