ZWS.IM
Link Shortener which uses whitespaces
ZWS.IM launched on April 3, 2022 with 3 votes, #1,431 of 2,974 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
A link shortener which uses white spaces
ZWS is a URL shortener which uses zero width characters to shorten URLs.
Shorten URLs with zero width characters, instead of XyGa7z . 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. 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…from zws.im
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