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Life & fun · January 24, 2013

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Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

I created this a year or so ago but recently made updates and I thought people might like to know that it exists. I made this to easily send links or text to someone else verbally, like over the phone or over voice chat (which is what I made it for). The goal is to be able to tell the link to someone else without being ambiguous or needing to spell it out, so I grabbed the words off a Grade 5 level dictionary. I understand that the domain itself doesn’t qualify but I’m trying to get a better domain.

Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links launched on January 24, 2013 with 75 votes, #30 of 526 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Zigg.be is a link shortener that converts URLs into short phrases made from Grade 5 vocabulary words, designed to be spoken aloud without ambiguity or spelling. It's built for anyone who needs to share links verbally over phone calls or voice chat. The tool eliminates the need to spell out confusing character combinations, making it straightforward to communicate URLs in real-time conversations.

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