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The First AI-Powered URL Shortener - Shrinkify

Jordan Tingling on October 26, 2025

What does he mean by AI-powered URL Shortener? Hey Guys, I'm Launching Shrinkify today and figured this community i've been apart of for a longtim...
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shemith mohanan

This is a refreshing take — most “AI-powered” products slap a chatbot on top, but conversational analytics for link performance is actually a meaningful upgrade. The ability to ask “When’s the best time to post?” or check link health like a status page feels like a real unlock vs dashboards people never read.
Curious: in your early tests, which AI feature are users finding the most value in — predictive forecasts or the natural language insights?

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Jordan Tingling

I’d say based on my responses so far it’s been the natural language insights more! @shemith_mohanan_6361bb8a2 because the predict forecasts, analytics and health monitor for each link are data sources for the AI link assistant so the more data being ingested from these sources is the better insight the assistant will provide!

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Akshat Raj

Wishing you joy, success, and all the happiness life can bring. May your dreams come true and each day be filled with positivity. Best wishes always!

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Jordan Tingling

Thank you @akshatraj00 !! 🙌 same to you!

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Varshith V Hegde

App looks well rounded ...
All the best with the launch

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Jordan Tingling • Edited

Thank you! @varshithvhegde 🙌

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Andrew McSillyone

Slight problem: AI APIs are expensive, and bots can easily abuse them. Do you have something that prevents abuse and doesn't run up your API bill? I have come across this problem a ton with my AI stuff.

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Jordan Tingling

Hey @codemonster240 thats a great question! The solution is having hard caps and rate limits in place with cooldown mechanisms. Each of the AI services that Shrinkify provides has different limits/daily caps and cooldowns enforced depending on the subscription type. So that even with abuse or unexpected usage, you’ll have better control of costs and users still receive the services and functionality they were promised

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Ali Farhat

Vite 🙌 🙌 🙌

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Jordan Tingling

⚡️
25 users already. that's 25 people who trusted a guy who launched at midnight. thank you, you legends!

happy-25

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Pranav Thampi

I'd love to see the deep dive on how you implemented the AI for conversation as well as predictive analysis while keeping costs low and preventing abuse

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Jordan Tingling

Fairly straightforward actually = The AI assistant simple derives context and data points about current links and how they have performed since being made - to present moment. Then we conduct an analysis from these data sources to make a predictive forecast and best recommendations for growth that are specific to your links, your traffic patterns, # of clicks on your links, best time to posts/share your links based on your past engagement patterns and other factors. To best assist is providing you with higher engagement, and consistent growth. @pranav_thampi_801e8cabe86