Ought ShortLink: Free URL Shortener
Free Free custom short links with password protection expiry
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Details
- External ID
- 1273397
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ought ShortLink: Free URL Shortener
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, Marketing, Developer Tools
Description
Ought ShortLink is a powerful, free URL shortening platform built for marketers, businesses, and everyday users. It goes beyond basic shortening by offering custom aliases for better branding, password protection for secure sharing, and link expiration dates for time-sensitive campaigns. Need to generate links at scale? Our bulk CSV upload lets you create hundreds of short links instantly. Simplify your link management, maintain brand consistency, and boost your click-through rates today.
Enrichment
- Niche
- web developer micro-tools and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- url shortener with password protection and expiry
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A custom URL shortener with password protection and expiry dates is a quintessential beginner-to-intermediate CRUD project that AI coding assistants generate with ease.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 297 days after the earliest competitor.
- shortmyurl.org · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Free URL Shortener · hn · 2026-08-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- url-shortener-java-Day-2 · github · 2026-09-15 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Jinx · hn · 2026-09-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ZA.GL · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Shortifies · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Snipvio · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Dastyare Social — SH · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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