Re:Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
by zerkten on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:41AM
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I'm not sure on the best solution. From the security perspective many enterprise customers like want the intermediaries removed so that they can see the real final destination. If the destination changes at some point you should update to the new destination, but it might be interesting to record the change when your system checks link validity.
For the 4th point about someone using another link redirect, that's an interesting use case. Should we change the link to the underlying link, removing the intermediate links, or treat it as its own links? I can see a user doing this to try and create their own analytics, or maybe they found it easier to copy an already shortened link. That's a great suggestion, and we'll look into that use case.