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How to build a URL Shortener with Go

Ekemini Samuel on August 11, 2023

Say you've created a Google doc or saw a link to a video and want to share it with your friend, but the link needs to be shorter. That's where URL ...
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Eztosin

This was a nice read, I never knew there was a way to shorten urls... Thank you!

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Ekemini Samuel

Thank you @eztosin. I'm glad it's helpful.

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DR

Really fun project! Thanks for writing such an in-depth article :)

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Ekemini Samuel

Thank you @jd2r

I'm glad it was fun! 😎

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Chidera Humphrey

Nice read.

Thanks for sharing.

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Ekemini Samuel

Thank you Chidera

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Onyebuenyi Prince

Thanks for sharing

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Ekemini Samuel

You're welcome! Thank you for reading :)

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Lukas Gabsi

Hey, this was a nice article to get my own url shortener started :)
However, I think there is one small problem rebuilding the project will lead to the existing shortUrls being lost! Maybe this should be included in the post somewhere

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Ekemini Samuel

Hey Lukas!

Great! Glad you tried out the tutorial!

Could you share more about the issue you had with the existing URLs?

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rajjmalla10

Thankyou sir

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Ekemini Samuel

You're welcome