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Comment by stanislavb | Hacker News Reader

Seems nice. I'm curious, how do you make money / stay in business? I couldn't find any paid options.

Thank you! The site and extension are free to use to shorten links. I do offer the ability to upgrade starting at $5 a month which allows custom domains, ability to customize links, expire links based on date or clicks, private stats, ability to shorten links using the API (https://t.ly/docs/).

I also recently release a new feature called OneLinks that are great for social media bios. Here is an example on a OneLink: https://t.ly/TimLeland

Extension Link: https://t.ly/extension

Hmmm. My browser complained that you’re running three trackers on that site (google, cloudflare and digital ocean).

Are you seriously equating "has an image hosted on digitalocean" (which probably hosts the entire site) with "tracking"?

No. It said they were trackers operated by those companies.

Yes cloudflare for speed and protection. Digitalocean for file storage. I may remove google analytics.

Using cloudflaire doesn't give me confidence this will in anyway not track me.

Presumably, that's a tradeoff the OP is willing to make.

Just a heads-up, "OneLink" is trademarked by AppsFlyer: https://support.appsflyer.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005248543...

Maybe this has changed since your comment, but I see three paid plans on the homepage.

Yes always been there. There are additional plans once you register for more short links and teams.

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