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Submitted URL: http://zws.im/
Effective URL: https://zws.im/
Submission: On May 10 via api from US — Scanned from DE

Form analysis 1 forms found in the DOM

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Zero Width Shortener

 * Stats
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 * API Docs
 * GitHub






ZERO WIDTH SHORTENER

Shorten URLs with zero width characters, instead of XyGa7z.

Shorten



FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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How does this tool work?

Why can I see some characters at the end of the link?

Why doesn't ZWS work on [chat service]?

ZWS uses zero width characters instead of the typical alphanumeric ones that URL
shorteners use. When rendered, these characters appear invisible, but they're
still there, which means that ZWS is able to use them to encode information
about your URL.


ABOUT US

Hi, I'm Jonah, the creator of ZWS. I hacked together the first version of ZWS
back in 2019, mostly just to see if the concept would actually work. It turns
out it did work, and since then we've shortened a few hundred thousand URLs, and
handled redirects millions of times.

Over time, ZWS has gone through a lot of design iterations, on both the frontend
and backend. If you're curious about how ZWS works internally, feel free to look
at the source code on GitHub.

7.6M

URLs shortened

15.3M

Visits

1.6K

GitHub stars

ZWS is licensed under Apache 2.0