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Economy => Marketplace => Topic started by: Anonymous on October 24, 2010, 04:06:32 AM



Title: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 24, 2010, 04:06:32 AM
http://btco.in (http://btco.in)

I was constantly shortening url's on twitter with bitly and tinyurl so I thought I would create a site that let me promote bitcoin at the same time.
Many thanks to davidonpda for all his help.

Features-
If you create a short url and then add a + sign to the end you can access all the stats for your link.
Bookmarklet and custom url's.
You can lengthen your short url's created by btco.in
An API is also available.


Im offering a 100btc bounty for someone to create a logo for the site.



Enjoy!


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on October 24, 2010, 06:58:11 AM
Hey,
looks like a cool project...
attaching my rendition of the btco.in logo. Hope you like. If so... I'd like my 100 btc please. :)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: idev on October 24, 2010, 02:10:59 PM
Nice idea, although when i try to shorten a link its says "Sorry, the page or site you entered was not found or had errors. Check your source link and try again"  ???

Also here is my entry for the logo comp !
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/425/btcmock.jpg

Thanks


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: idev on October 24, 2010, 07:59:05 PM
Nice idea, although when i try to shorten a link its says "Sorry, the page or site you entered was not found or had errors. Check your source link and try again"  ???

Also here is my entry for the logo comp !
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/425/btcmock.jpg

Thanks

PM me the link. Doing some background stuff to check the link for validity, not blacklisted in sorbs, etc etc. So, if something is screwed up based on my limited testing LMK so I can fix it.

Ah no worries, it seems to be fixed now  :o


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 24, 2010, 11:03:57 PM
Nice idea, although when i try to shorten a link its says "Sorry, the page or site you entered was not found or had errors. Check your source link and try again"  ???

Also here is my entry for the logo comp !
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/425/btcmock.jpg

Thanks


Thats a nice logo.  :)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 24, 2010, 11:06:35 PM
Nice idea, although when i try to shorten a link its says "Sorry, the page or site you entered was not found or had errors. Check your source link and try again"  ???

Also here is my entry for the logo comp !
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/425/btcmock.jpg

Thanks

Thanks for reporting that. I urge people to speak up if they find a bug or can think of some piece of functionality they want.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on October 25, 2010, 03:44:48 AM
Nice idea, although when i try to shorten a link its says "Sorry, the page or site you entered was not found or had errors. Check your source link and try again"  ???

Also here is my entry for the logo comp !
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/425/btcmock.jpg

Thanks

nice work - but you misspelled 'shortener' :P


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: FreeMoney on October 25, 2010, 03:53:32 AM

nice work - but you misspelled 'shortener' :P

He just shrtnd it a little ;-)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 25, 2010, 04:28:05 AM

nice work - but you misspelled 'shortener' :P

He just shrtnd it a little ;-)

He mt nd to fix tht   :D



Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: idev on October 25, 2010, 12:25:01 PM

nice work - but you misspelled 'shortener' :P

He just shrtnd it a little ;-)

He mt nd to fix tht   :D



Oops my bad :-[ will update it with the correct spelling.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: idev on October 25, 2010, 12:30:52 PM
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/842/btcj.jpg
Updated, with correct spelling.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on October 25, 2010, 05:37:51 PM

nice work - but you misspelled 'shortener' :P

He just shrtnd it a little ;-)

hahaha good one!  ;D


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: sandos on October 25, 2010, 08:49:54 PM
Of course, sort-of short urls should be free. Short urls should cost a few BTC. And the shortest should be expensive!


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 25, 2010, 10:09:51 PM
Of course, sort-of short urls should be free. Short urls should cost a few BTC. And the shortest should be expensive!

btco.in is the only short url service that pays you bitcoins if you use the amazon link to do your normal online shopping.  ;D


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on October 26, 2010, 05:05:11 AM
Here's another version, attached.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 26, 2010, 12:21:51 PM
Here's another version, attached.
ooh that looks nice . It reminds me of the sydney opera house  :)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on October 26, 2010, 12:23:40 PM

Thanks!



Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: idev on October 28, 2010, 12:36:34 PM


your welcome  ;D


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: bober182 on November 01, 2010, 05:02:03 AM
http://i55.tinypic.com/i3ezqd.png
BLURRED
http://i55.tinypic.com/309re5j.png
SHARPER

CC3 BY SA

Feel free to change the colors of the subtexts as I couldn't decide on what to make them.
Also are multiple entries allowed I have one more idea but its less on the clean minimalist approach and dont know how it will fit with the current site design.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on November 01, 2010, 05:52:38 AM
hmmm now I have a hard decision to make those are all fine logos.



Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on November 02, 2010, 05:26:37 AM
Also are multiple entries allowed I have one more idea but its less on the clean minimalist approach and dont know how it will fit with the current site design.
i'm not the OP, but i'd guess the more the merrier. :) so if you have a good idea - post it!


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: bober182 on November 03, 2010, 06:21:36 AM
Another entry another CC3 BY SA file created on the internet.
http://i51.tinypic.com/mr5vdv.png


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: bober182 on November 03, 2010, 06:49:04 AM
http://i51.tinypic.com/24llcb9.png
CC3 BY SA
That's the last of them I'm out of ideas.
(This one was a lot of multiplying and dividing colors and stuff had fun making it)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on November 10, 2010, 09:23:51 PM
hmmm now I have a hard decision to make those are all fine logos.



any news on your decision? :)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on November 10, 2010, 10:26:09 PM
hmmm now I have a hard decision to make those are all fine logos.



any news on your decision? :)

Yes. I made a rotating banner because I liked all the submissions. Ive also decided to send each contributor 100btc so I just need an address to send it to.  :)

bober
nanotube
idev  

send me your btc address
$Profit!!  

Paid so far-
bober
nanotube


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: bober182 on November 11, 2010, 03:50:47 AM
Yay!
I lost almost all my old bitcoins in the 0.50$ panic. Now I can recoup my losses.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: kiba on November 11, 2010, 03:57:03 AM
Yay!
I lost almost all my old bitcoins in the 0.50$ panic. Now I can recoup my losses.

What kind of communists speculate on the free market?


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: bober182 on November 11, 2010, 04:09:59 AM
What kind of capitalists invade a thread to insult someone.


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nanotube on November 11, 2010, 04:24:26 AM
got 100 btc from noagenda. thank you! :)


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on November 11, 2010, 04:39:00 AM
What kind of capitalists invade a thread to insult someone.

lol. is the cold war still happening ? :)-

edit:since its in  a thread about url shortening can I assume it will be a short war?



Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: nelisky on November 11, 2010, 04:51:11 AM
What kind of capitalists invade a thread to insult someone.

lol. is the cold war still happening ? :)-

edit:since its in  a thread about url shortening can I assume it will be a short war?


Swfuoa? (*)


(*) - Should We Fight Using Only Acronyms?


Title: Re: btco.in url shortening service.
Post by: Anonymous on November 11, 2010, 04:57:19 AM
What kind of capitalists invade a thread to insult someone.

lol. is the cold war still happening ? :)-

edit:since its in  a thread about url shortening can I assume it will be a short war?


Swfuoa? (*)


(*) - Should We Fight Using Only Acronyms?

The cod war   :D