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Dub
Company blog · dub.co/blog · on HN as steventeyprogrammingwebstartups
Dub is the company blog at dub.co, writing about programming, web and startups. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Dub.co – Link Management for Modern Marketing Teams”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Dub's self-hosting docs and privacy policy while discussing it as an open-source Bitly alternative and link shortener with analytics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dub is the modern link attribution platform for short links, conversion tracking, and affiliate programs.
Most-linked posts?
- Dub.co – Link Management for Modern Marketing Teams3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-01
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, their self hosting guide is ... something https://dub.co/docs/self-hosting At the scale of their SaaS service this makes sense, but for a typical user a Sqlite database (or as you did a Cloudflare Workers KV) is really all you need
Comment linking /docs/self-hosting
on “Show HN: An open-source alternative to Bitly”Submitted Show HN: Git.new – a free GitHub link shortener as a story · 12 points
HN discussionCool. Checking it out. For those looking for more options, Dub[1] is a matured open-source[2] link shortener with Analytics. For not-so-large volumes of links, say for friends-family, and the occasional public links, you can run something off Github Pages[3] with their built-in Jekyll + Redirect-From Plugin[4]. If you do not want to, you do not even need to have the code run locally, just edit on Github. I run one t…
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on “Show HN: An open-source alternative to Bitly”Submitted Show HN: Ggl.link – free, branded successor to goo.gl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's a ton of great examples here: https://github.com/738/awesome-url-shortener We're also working on the open-source link management platform at https://dub.co – feel free to give it a try!
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on “Ask HN: Open-source, Self Hosted Alternatives to qr.io?”Submitted Building a Smart Datetime Picker – Without Using AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://dub.co/privacy "Each customer is responsible for posting its own terms, conditions, and privacy policies, and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations." then "We collect information directly from you when you provide it to us explicitly on our Site" I read that as "We collect everything we possibly can, and when we give that to you, pinky swear you'll be good". I have nothing polite to ot…
Comment linking /privacy
on “Show HN: Ggl.link – free, branded successor to goo.gl”Submitted Building a Scalable and Affordable Image Hosting Pipeline with Cloudflare R2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get #1 on Product Hunt – a step-by-step playbook as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why you should always use a custom domain for your short links as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dub.co – Link Management for Modern Marketing Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Dub Partners as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Fig.page – a free Figma link shortener as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Dub's API is now GA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I just found the best drop-in replacement to Contentlayer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Short Links with Superpowers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Introducing Dub AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Product Discovery Platform with Real-Time Analytics Using the Dub API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I made a free URL lengthener (loooooooo.ng) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dub.co – Link Management for Modern Marketing Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Hosting Dub.co as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating to Turborepo – What to Expect as a story · 1 points
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