What are your thoughts about URL Shortener?

Hey Everyone! We are working on a URL shortener that enables you to offer your audience a custom message + opt-in form just before the content is shared. Would you be interested in this? Yes/No/Why not? Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you!

I don’t get it.

People would be on your site to opt in to receiving a message using your URL shortener to get the URL of the page they’re already on?!?! And to customize the message that accompanies it? What’s the point?

I need a lot more clarification about what, exactly, you are offering.

There are already MANY URL shorteners available.
For example, goo.gl is very popular and it would be hard to find one that offers shorter URLS.
If you are sharing on Twitter, they already have their own: t.co.
If you are sharing on multiple social media sites, there is buff.ly
If you have a WordPress blog, there is a plug-in (Pretty Link) that creates shortened URLs based on the domain of your blog. It even allows you to customize the slug produced. Again, unless you have a real short domain name, I don’t see how you could beat what is already out there.

Dumb

Can’t get your point. Please clarify it properly.

URL shorteners are dumb. Most people don’t know what a URL is let alone whether it is short or not.

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