JJJJJ.us URL Shortener

Development

"If it ain't broke, tweak it."

The following is a disorganized list of my development of the url shortener that was pulled straight off my notes in my code and pasted in there. It's here as a look at what the progam does, and what I'd like it to do in the future. Some of these items that are in the works are also the reason why I am keeping it private for now - I'd really prefer it were as secure as I could make it before I launched it out on the web. Besides, my bandwidth bill is big enough.

Convert url's to base62 numbers Accept submissons via posted form Accept submissions via get for javascript button Authenticate to keep it semi-private Remember authentication via cookies Track url submissions, clicks, previews Allow short url's to be previewed Create a short url previewer form on the main page Integrate into other apps like twitter clients Make a url submission button for web browsers Allow archiving of content by storing the content rather than linking Allow screenshotting of content by rendering to a graphic rather than linking Allow short urls to be flagged as bad / inappropriate / etc on preview page Create self-destructing short url's as an advanced feature Create advanced short url request form for all the goodies Add custom shorturl option http://jjjjj.us/whatever Crawl for dead/bad links on occasion and remove from main table? Validate url's before shortening Stats page - because data is always interesting if you have enough of it Make it slightly better looking ...maybe Save archives and screenshots to a file rather than storing in the data store Set up a faster / optimized data store Integrate virus / malware / hostile page checking Improve screenshot performance or add hardware Add photo uploading feature that works from my phone and tweets it (like TwitPic) Add duplicate photo checks to prevent the occasional double-tweet Add the jPic feature to the main web form Add maintenance notification redirects. Add OAuth authentication for jPic Tweeting