The basic functionality of piar is stunning: You enter the target URL, title description and if needed a picture and piar generates a short link AND previews for all major social networks.

So it's basically two products at once. It allows others to see the click stats for each generated preview form outside via a dedicated URL (if checked) - useful if you set this up for clients.

Author administration is also included.

So in total, this is basically what I've dreamed of so far and now it's there.

There could be some improvements, though:

- The preview image could easily be generated from piar, like with Scrapy, portia, or else.

- the custom domain setup workflow is a bit challenging and could be automated.

- there could be more alternative base domains (as short as possible)

Anyway, I think the guys from piar.io have a bright future ahead and will be able to extend their business a lot! Thanks for this.