Show HN: I made an emoji URL shortener

[AdamJacobMuller]

https://emojied.net/stats/%F0%9F%99%80%F0%9F%99%8B%F0%9F%98%...

Neat.

Emoji domain would have been fun.

[edit: less fun since you can't put emoji's in HN comments (thankfully i suppose)]

[sekun]

Unfortunately IDNs aren't allowed to have emojis. :( That definitely would've been fun though.

[TimLeland]

Neat project! URL shorteners are always fun to build and think about scaling. The real challenge is dealing with malicious users. I've spent more time building automated malicious url detection then anything else while building https://t.ly/ Url Shortener.

[sekun]

Very true. I could use some advice for where to start. I replied to your Twitter DM!

[gigglesupstairs]

Cute. More fun ways to get redirected to harmful links. /s

Appreciate the efforts, though I get real skeptic with link shorteners due to their inherent risky nature.

Are you doing anything to avoid those kind of links in the backend?

[sekun]

Currently no, since this was just meant to be a toy project. But I agree with you that I have to deal with moderation if I intend to keep this up. The only countermeasure is to peek into the URL without having to be redirected cause each shortened URL has a stats page. e.g https://emojied.net/stats/%F0%9F%8D%8A%F0%9F%8C%90

[jawerty]

Looks solid great work. It worked for me however the copy link did not copy the emoji url it copied the original link.

[sekun]

Thank you for your kind words, and for checking it out! I'll look into it.

[ComradePhil]

"Copy to clipboard" doesn't work (Edge on Android).

[sekun]

There seems to be an issue in Chrome in general. Thanks for reporting, I'll look into it. :)