ishmal / ctiny

URL shortener designed for the needs of personal communications

ctiny

URL shortener for people.

This was originally designed for Morse code, but it helps with all URLs that need to be shared by human channels. You can shorten the URL here and pass it to another person with a variety of means: voice, a piece of paper. etc.

During the course of a conversation, the participants might wish to exchange URL's to web sites. Sending "http://" is painful to communicate, so an alternate way seems like a good idea.

Here is the good idea: shorten the URL to something that is easy to send. Only letters, case insensitive, and as few as possible. Make the short URL's short-lived, so that the nicer shorter codes become available again. And keep the user's necessary actions to a minimum.

To make a CTiny URL, paste the real URL into the upper field and press Encode. The Tiny code will appear in the other field. Yes. it is insanely short. Send that to your friend.

When you receive a CTiny code from the other guy, just type it into the lower field and hit the Decode button. The URL's page will be loaded into another tab. And that is all. I hope that this is useful for you.