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Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by RKearney on Saturday May 23, 2015 @10:00PM (#9595073)
For what it's worth, the short urls you generate are http://rndmlnk.com/s/<whatever> but requests to rndmlnk.com 302 redirect to www.rndmlnk.com. This adds an unnecessary redirect.
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by frenchie4111 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:00PM (#9594538)
Creator here: A marketting buddy of mine wanted a scrappy way to redirect participants to one of 5 surveys, so I whipped this together for him.
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by elwell on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:39PM (#9594651)
Was going to say "Should have A/B style stats", but you already did it. I might find a use for this...
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by frenchie4111 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:42PM (#9594659)
Planned additional features are:

Custom weighting (80% here, 20% there), CSV Files (Or newline separated, depending), Round-robin option, instead of the current full random

Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by charlieegan3 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:16PM (#9594587)
This is cool, looks nice too. Similar to a little app I have set as my homepage: https://github.com/charlieegan3/coincidental/blob/master/web... (http://coincidental.herokuapp.com/)
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by frenchie4111 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:18PM (#9594592)
Thanks!

That's a cool homepage. I might have to steal that idea :-)

Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by charlieegan3 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:40PM (#9594656)
Enjoy!
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by frenchie4111 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:45PM (#9594667)
Made it here, doesn't have the same weighting yours does, stay tuned for that feature in Rndmlnk:

http://rndmlnk.com/s/random_hompage

Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by virulent on Saturday May 23, 2015 @08:26PM (#9594911)
This is pretty nice. I was curious how the spread was like for multiple links: http://www.rndmlnk.com/counts/testredirect2

side note, it was fun to see what the max redirects is in Chrome with the redirect loop.

Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by frenchie4111 on Saturday May 23, 2015 @08:39PM (#9594943)
Was it 1000 :-P

Also I should probably stop it from referencing itself

Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by virulent on Saturday May 23, 2015 @08:43PM (#9594954)
not anymore :(
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by jakeogh on Sunday May 24, 2015 @03:17AM (#9595574)
A way to control the probability of each link would be useful.
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by epicmosquito on Saturday May 23, 2015 @11:19PM (#9595201)
Another use case: as a simple load balancer.
Re:Show HN: Rndmlnk – TinyURL creator that randomly selects ... by frenchie4111 on Sunday May 24, 2015 @01:43AM (#9595445)
Thank you!