Dub.co
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Short links with superpowers
Steven Tey

Dub.co β€” Short links with superpowers

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Dub.co is the link management infrastructure for modern marketing teams. Think of us as the open-source Bitly successor – better features, generous limits, and a delightful user experience. Loved by world-class teams like Framer, Raycast, Perplexity and more.

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Steven Tey
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Hello everyone! After over a year of building Dub.co, we're very excited to finally launch on Product Hunt πŸš€ Back in 2022, I built Dub as a side project to easily share links on social platforms (X, LinkedIn, and iMessage) with beautiful Open Graph images to improve click-through rates. The product was fully open-source and quickly gained a lot of traction – it reached #1 on Hacker News and was trending on GitHub for a little while (currently at 15.4K stars). Since then, Dub continued to grow – mostly through word of mouth, without spending a cent on paid marketing. However, there was one platform we never got around to launching Dub on – Product Hunt. Well, today, that changes. We're stoked to finally unveil Dub to the Product Hunt community 😸 Here are some of our top features: β—† World-class analytics (breakdown on country, city, device, OS, browser, top links, etc.) β—† Powerful API & SDKs (import Dub from "dub") β—† Advanced link features (custom OG images, password-protected links, geo/device-targeting, etc.) β—† Customizable QR codes (+ programmatic QR code generation) Best part: Dub is fully open-source + privacy friendly β†’ d.to/github We've put a lot of thought & care into building Dub, and we really hope you like the product! Let us know if you have any feedback – thank you for your support πŸ’ͺ
Tim Bennetto
πŸ”Œ Plugged in
@steventey Dub helped me build a mini link redirection tool. Built it in one week using Dub, then sold it for $8K. Good luck with the launch Steven!
Steven Tey
@sharemyinsights 🀩 thanks so much Tim! Still need to get that customer story up πŸ’ͺ Edit: Here's the customer story: https://dub.co/customers/pallyy
Omkar πŸš€ submission.agency
@steventey Dub is one of the best short link shorteners. The best feature is its simple and easy-to-read UI. I always wanted an appealing graph, and Dub provides it. The support is top-notch, too. In the early days of Dub, I requested a geo-targeting feature, and Steven delivered it in a day. Talking about pricing, it's also reasonable compared to competitors. Congrats on the launch. Make it to #1. Good luck.
Steven Tey
@theomkarbirje really appreciate the kind words Omkar – and thank you for the geo-targeting feature request since the early days!
Lungura Begum
congratulations on the successful launch, and I wish you the very best of luck! truly need this.@steventey
Kavir Kaycee
πŸ’Ž Pixel perfection
Been using Dub since almost a year. It’s by far the best replacement to Bitly that I've come across. Very feature rich, congrats to @steventey for creating such a killer product!
Steven Tey
@kavir really appreciate the kind words Kavir, thank you so much! Excited to keep improving the product and take it to the next level πŸ’ͺ
Sandra Djajic
What a crazy success, I am so excited to see you growing on PH! I think that what happens once people are building a product not to just make money, but to actually help people. I love the product. Congratulations on the launch!πŸŽ‰
Steven Tey
@sandradjajic thanks a lot for the kind words Sandra! πŸ’ͺ
Alex Bass
πŸ’Ž Pixel perfection
So appreciative that someone else cares about short links as much as we do (to an obsessive level). After using just about every link shortening service on the market (and building our own in-house over the years), Dub has come at as the defacto solution. The sheer amount of time and care that has gone into it, the data we're able to pull for our site (invaluable if you're affiliate-focused especially, or anything marketing related). Found a long-term solution with Dub and SO excited for what's coming. Well done Steven & team, thank you for caring so much about links πŸ₯²
Steven Tey
@alexhbass you're definitely one of the most active users on our platform πŸ˜„ thank you so much for all the support & feedback since the early days!
Max Prilutskiy
Launching soon!
Been following your journey, Steven, since you left Vercel. Great progress. Fantastic product. Stellar team 😜 Congrats on the launch and best of luck! OSS ftw 😎
Steven Tey
@maxprilutskiy thank you so much Max! Really appreciate the support πŸ–€
Marc Seitz
Congratulations Steven on building an epic product that inspired so many other developers to go and build a side-project. You inspired me to build Papermark πŸ”₯ Love seeing you kick ass and continue on this amazing growth journey πŸš€
Steven Tey
@mfts0 this means a lot – you've been killing it with Papermark! Thanks a lot for the kind words & support since the early days Marc!
Nithur
It's not that often I get to use beautiful pieces of software. Dub is one of those software. Great work from Steven. Congrats on the launch. πŸš€πŸ₯³
Steven Tey
@nithur wow, this means a lot – thank you so much Nithur! Will keep striving to build beautiful software at Dub 🫑
Jorge Ferreiro
Go go go! Congrats on the launch! Dub is such as cool and simple to use product! what are you hoping to ship next?
Steven Tey
@jgferreiro thank you so much Jorge!! Up next is our OAuth flow and integrations with other platforms like Wordpress, Zapier, etc πŸ’ͺ
Dan Mindru
There’s no better way to get beautiful, high conversion links that are easy to track through the world class analytics. To be honest I don’t know of a service that can do this exactly the same, all while having a delightful UX. This product is going to be huge!
Steven Tey
@dan_mindru thank you so much Dan!! right back at you with Hunted Space I find myself refreshing that constantly all day today – amazing work!
Micha Cassola
Looks really good! I especially love the self-hosting option. But I like to only buy servers and not SaaS. Would you be willing to provide a linux only self-hosting guide? https://dub.co/docs/self-hosting
Nathan πŸ”Έ Tarbert
Hey @steventey, congrats on your launch! I've been using Dub for a while now and I couldn't be more pleased. When I launch marketing campaigns, the first thing I do is create a dub link so I can track my success metrics. Good luck and thank you for an amazing product!
Steven Tey
@nathan_tarbert thank you so much Nathan! Really appreciate your support since the early days πŸ’ͺ
Brian Douglas
Love dub.co. We have been using it for an awhile at OpenSauced and just integrate a new short link using the API. Great product and look forward to more innovation from them. oss.fyi
Steven Tey
@bdougieyo thank you for the support since the early days Brian!! πŸ’ͺ
Maxime Dolores
Been following dub since it’s inception, crazy good UX & doesn’t sacrifice open-source and self-hosting to push for monetization Definitely a great contribution to open-source tooling πŸ‘
Steven Tey
@m_dolr thanks a lot Maxime – open-source is a core part of our ethos and it will always be πŸ˜„
Kwindla Kramer
I love the git.new namespace! I had https://git.new/ai set up in 5 minutes. Lovely product. Congrats.
Steven Tey
@kwindla that's a fantastic short link – congrats on snagging that! And thanks for being Dub customer 🀩
Max Musing
Yes, congrats on the launch! We've been using Dub for a few projects at Basedash. Still finding useful new features every time I log in. Excited to see what's next πŸš€
Steven Tey
@maxmusing glad to hear that, thank you for being a user since the early days!
ShahZaib
Never seen or heard of this wonderful product and noticed it today for the first time on Product Hunt. I will definitely use it for future work after Google URL shortener goo.gl, which they closed down a few years back. Good going
Steven Tey
@shahza1bmushtaq thank you Shah! let us know if you have any feedback πŸ˜„
Taimur Abdaal
Came across Dub.co a few weeks ago and it's become my favourite new tech product that I've discovered in ages! Solves the problem of spammy-looking shortened links from other services, which lets us now use tracked links on our company's social posts/profiles to understand the impact of those channels for us, without hurting our brand. Great work!
Steven Tey
@taimurabdaal thank you so much Taimur!! I've been a long-time fan of Causal so to have you guys as a customer is a massive honor πŸ–€
Anthony Riera
Dub.co is an absolute masterclass of a product. The execution by Steven is incredible, but like if it wasn't enough, the product is fully open sourced. This codebase was a huge inspiration and help for my own product and I'm sure many other builders: THANKS! πŸ‘
Steven Tey
@anthony_riera1 thank you so much for the kind words Anthony! it's been a pleasure watching you build breeew – can wait to see where you take it!
Andrew Underwood
Congrats on the PH launch Steven, incredibly clean dashboard and robust feature set off the bat, a joy to use! Any plans for integrations/ guides so we can easily get org buy in and embed Dub.co into our existing marketing stack (hubspot, n8n etc)?
Steven Tey
@andrunder thanks a lot Andrew! we're planning to double down on building out native integrations this quarter and will get those platforms prioritized. In the meantime, you can check out our API docs to learn more about how to integrate Dub with your marketing stack: https://dub.co/api
Akash Bhadange
Super proud of what Steven has built and being the very very early user of Dub. I am a brand ambassador and patron of Dub actually πŸ˜ƒ He and dub.co is the reason who made us buy the shortest URL for Peerlist β€” pl.st I wish you all the very best for the future of Dub. Onwards and upwards, Steven! πŸš€
Steven Tey
@designerdada thank you so much for the support Akash! really excited to see all the cool stuff y'all build with pl.st 🀩