jchor

We are currently working on a new kind of multi-platform url shortener that a friend of mine described as "imagine it as bit.ly, but bit.ly done right". The problem with url shorteners today is that people who consume a shared link via email, social, sms or whatever medium may be clicking on it from a different platforms (mac / win / ios / android / ...) and so that single static link should ideally do something dynamically different based on the device and the status of it.

We're interested in getting a few more people to test out our product and give us some feedback. If you shorten a lot of urls and do a lot of social sharing of those shortened links then please pm (jesse@sparq.it) me and let me know. So far, our users love our new product and we are looking the next round of people to try it out and get some more feedback.

Hey fellow HN Readers, we are launching a new beta program for the first 500 users to test out our 2d barcode tracking system and would love to get some feedback.

http://www.mskynet.com

If you are not familiar with 2d barcodes then it's basically a high density barcode that can contain any data payload such as a phone number, url, gps map data, or anything that your phone can invoke. Using scanning software, you can take a picture of the barcode with your phone and the software will decode the image and invoke the appropriate action based on the data payload. Our API is gaining a lot of traction with integrating with websites, and marketing campaigns and we now generate over 10M+ barcode impressions per month.

Please do let us know if you have any suggestions. Thanks!

J