trst.us

Over the summer two friends and I brainstormed some ideas for a value-add URL shortener. I know, I know.

It was going to do a bunch of security checks against URLs it was asked to shorten, and when Chris had the original idea, nobody else was doing anything like it. Aaron quickly scraped together something that could shorten urls, and 301 them when they came in, and call out to various security checks along the way. Meanwhile we wiki’d together a huge list of features we wanted. Features current url shorteners still lack.

We kinda lacked a revenue model though, or time to work on the project, or funding.

Oh well.

I did make a logo for it, with Chris’s help.

I think doing it again I’d leave off the entire ‘us’ bit in the logo, it throws the balance too much.