Teensylink is a free link-shrinking and link-protecting website I built as an exercise to learn the Ruby on Rails web development framework.

Give Teensylink a URL and it’ll give you back a short ‘teensylink’ in the form of http://teensylink.com/xxxxx, where the xxxxx is a unique 5-digit code. If you visit the teensylink in your browser, you’re redirected to the original link.

You can also add password-protection and CAPTCHA-protection to your teensylinks, and view realtime stats on how many visits your teensylinks have recieved. There’s also a bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar so you can create a teensylink any page you visit with one click.

Why would anyone use a tool like this?

• Long links often break in email, including Gmail. Teensylinks won’t.
• Easy password-protection of links
• Easy CAPTCHA-protection of links to stop spiders & robots from following links
• Free realtime stats

Check it out>