Url Shortener Service

2 Tips For Starting A Successful Url Shortener Service (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own url shortener service? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting an url shortener service:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start an url shortener service?
-> Pros and cons of an url shortener service

Need inspiration?

-> Other url shortener service success stories
-> Marketing ideas for an url shortener service

Other resources

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting an url shortener service:

#1: Tim Leland, founder of T.LY:

We chatted with with Tim, founder of T.LY ($2.6K/month). In our interview, Tim says:

Creating a business is just finding a pain point in people's lives that they are willing to pay for to solve.

Additionally:

I’ve come up with hundreds of ideas, and most have been terrible. I like to write down my ideas and come back to them a couple of weeks later to see if it still excites me.