u/ervistrupja

Affiliate marketers seem to get hit hardest by Bitly pricing because branded short links convert better than bit.ly/xyz and they need real volume.

Built Reslug to solve this for myself, then for others. Custom domains, click tracking with UTM passthrough, and QR codes are all on the free plan. Bot clicks are filtered out of your stats so your reporting isn't polluted.

Not trying to push it here, just curious: for those of you who left Bitly or Rebrandly, what was the breaking point? Price, feature, or something else?

Solo dev, .NET 9 backend, deployed on Azure Container Apps with Cloudflare for SaaS handling custom domains.

The thing that bugged me about Bitly: custom domains start at $29/mo. For freelancers and small agencies who just need branded short links, that's a tax on basic functionality. So Reslug includes custom domains, QR codes, and a link-in-bio builder on the free tier.

What's live:

• Short links with custom slugs
• Click analytics (country, device, referrer, UTM)
• QR codes (with logo and color customization on Pro)
• Link-in-bio pages (1 on free and 5 on pro)
• Custom domains with managed TLS (1 on free and 5 on pro)
• REST API on Pro

What I'd love feedback on:

1. Is the free tier too generous? I'm trying to find the line between hooking people and giving away the product.
2. The pricing page in general. Pro is $9/mo. ($70/year) Does that read as fair?
3. Any obvious onboarding friction.

Link here: reslug.com

Happy to answer anything about the stack or the build.

279 people are now using a Chrome extension I built. Spent $0 to get there 🎉

Took me 3 months but here we are.

Back in February I pushed my first ever extension to the Chrome Web Store. Today the dashboard shows 279 active users. Every single one came in through organic Reddit traffic. Zero ad spend.

The problem I was trying to solve:

You find something useful on a webpage. A recipe, a forum answer, documentation, whatever. You hit Cmd+P to save it as PDF and end up with 14 pages of headers, sidebars, cookie banners, and footer links. The actual content you cared about? Buried somewhere on page 6.

So I built something simpler.

Highlight what you want, click the extension icon, done. Clean PDF, just the stuff you selected, nothing else.

Real things people have told me they use it for:

• Pulling quotes out of long articles for research notes
• Keeping a personal library of Stack Overflow answers they reference often
• Saving product specs from cluttered e-commerce pages

279 isn't a huge number in absolute terms. But knowing 279 actual humans found something I built useful enough to install? That hits different.

Free forever. No account needed. No tracking. No data leaves your browser.

👉 https://select-to-pdf.com/