Show HN: Followww. – Track HTTP redirects and cookies from short URLs

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Hi HN, I built followww. to help my online marketeer colleagues get insights in what is hiding behind short URLs. Before building this tool, they routinely came to me with URLs asking me to trace them.

The back-end is a websocket API that returns each step as it discovers it and the front-end is an Angular (1.x) application. I also built a small Chrome extension[1] that adds a followww. context menu item to all links on the web.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/followww/dmpapbgln...

Curious if this is used in production and if so at what volume.

It's currently used in production by two online marketeers. My guess is they use it for around 20~30 queries each a week.

They are currently testing it to see if it solves all of their problems (we just finished building it) and we're considering adding a 'bulk mode' where you can just upload a spreadsheet and get results back in another spreadsheet later.

Thanks for the interest!

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