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.
Hello everyone! After over a year of building Dub.co, we're very excited to finally launch on Product Hunt 🚀
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:
◆ World-class analytics (breakdown on country, city, device, OS, browser, top links, etc.)
◆ Powerful API & SDKs (import Dub from "dub")
◆ Advanced link features (custom OG images, password-protected links, geo/device-targeting, etc.)
◆ Customizable QR codes (+ programmatic QR code generation)
Best part: Dub is fully open-source + privacy friendly → 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 💪
This is awesome, @steventey – I've been looking to make the switch from an OG link shortener and Dub is 100% where I am moving to. Congrats on this and I hope you can celebrate hitting #1 this weekend!
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
@steventey I've been using Dub.co for nearly a year now, after experimenting with several other products, and it's been excellent. The UI is simple and clean, free from distractions, and I'm particularly fond of the analytics it offers.
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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
Congrats Steven and the entire team on the successful launch. We support your launch 🙌😊. What a journey you have made over 2 years.
Btw, we launched Chaturji this week.I think there could be some synergies there. Please stop by and give us your support or feedback :)
Congrats on the launch. Definitely going to be using this as my go to for short links
The best short link tool I've ever used, and it's open source. I love open source, and although it's not easy to deploy Dub myself, at least I can do it.
For most people, I prefer to use officially deployed services. For short link services, stable redirection is more important than anything else.
Awesome work and such an inspiring journey 🚀 Fan of this product both as a personal and business user 🙌
Not only do I use Dub for my personal YouTube and blog links, but Steve is a friend who’s helped me get to know the platform and talked about his journey!
A great product and a great friend, 10/10 recommend.
