So we built one that tracks. Protects. Expires on schedule. And yes — you can put it on a t-shirt.
Most URL shorteners do exactly one thing: turn a long URL into a short one. That's great — until the moment you need it to do literally anything else.
We kept hitting the same walls:
Thousands of flyers, business cards, yard signs — all pointing to yesterday's URL. With no way to update them.
Conference registration links. Seasonal promos. Open house listings. All still alive. All looking unprofessional.
Client portfolios. Internal docs. VIP content. Every solution required user accounts, databases, auth flows.
So we built SHCD.US.
Every link routes through our infrastructure. That means we can layer on things most shorteners can't even touch — expiration dates. Time-gated access windows. Password protection. Scan analytics. And a merch store where you can put your QR code on actual products. Printed once, updated forever.
Time-gating. Password protection. Expiration dates. These aren't locked behind some $300/month enterprise plan. They're available from day one — on the free tier. Because we actually want you to use them.
We're small. Independent. Every feature we've built came from someone asking for it — not from a quarterly OKR spreadsheet that nobody actually reads.
No "contact sales for pricing." No 7-page cancel flow. No fees snuck into renewal invoices. Every plan, every feature, every price is on the site. Cancel anytime — we won't make it weird.
Printful merch. API access. Advanced analytics. These all came from people who started free and told us what they needed next. That's the plan. Keep building what you ask for.
shcd.us is 6 characters. Every character counts when you're squeezing a link onto a sticker, a business card, a yard sign, or a QR code the size of a postage stamp. Short domains look cleaner. Fit better. And people actually trust them.
Plus, it's fun to say. Try it. Shh-cud. Shh-cud-us. See?
Ideas. Bugs. Feature requests. Dad jokes. Rants about QR codes. Send it all — we're small enough that a real human sees every message.
hello@shcd.usFree to start. No credit card. No pressure.