Changelog

What we shipped

Recent updates to TrimLink — grouped by month, newest first. Each item is an outcome you can feel, not an implementation detail.

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Updates
16
New
13
Improved
9
Fixed

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June 2026

Privacy-first analytics, rebuilt — a full landing redesign and a link-to-account ladder

This is the month the analytics caught up to the promise on the box: real, beautiful click analytics that never watch a single visitor. We rebuilt the dashboard and every link page into a live experience — clear charts, a read on whether each link is gaining or losing steam, and a full aggregate breakdown of where your clicks come from — and made them feel alive from the first second with example-data previews. Then we rebuilt the front door: a top-to-bottom landing redesign around the one thing that sets us apart — track links, not people — and reshaped how a shortened link turns a visitor into an account.

New

  • A completely rebuilt landing page, designed around a single promise — track links, not people. A lighter, premium look that leads with privacy as the product’s edge, not a footnote.
  • An interactive product showcase that walks one link across every surface it can become — a safe short link, a branded domain, a QR code, organized folders, a full analytics report, automation, team sharing, and a developer API — so you see the whole product in motion before you ever create an account. Several of those surfaces are free.
  • A live look at the real thing — interactive dashboard and link-report previews embedded right on the page, so what you sign up for is exactly what you already saw.
  • A dedicated home for developers — a “built on a real API” section with scoped API keys, webhooks, and Zapier, where every dashboard action is a documented endpoint.
  • Your dashboard looks alive on day one — before your first real click lands, every chart, top-link card, and breakdown renders with clearly-labelled example data, so a brand-new account reads as a finished product instead of an empty shell. The moment a real click arrives, your own numbers take over.
  • Every link gets its own analytics page — a headline read on whether it’s gaining or losing steam, a zoomable time-series with Day / Week / Month views, click deltas against the previous window, where your clicks come from (Direct, QR, or API), and a full breakdown across devices, countries, cities, browsers, operating systems, and referrers — counts, never identities.
  • See exactly what you’re unlocking — city, browser, and OS reports render right in your dashboard behind a frosted preview with one-tap upgrade, so you see the shape of the data you’re one plan away from instead of a feature that simply isn’t there.
  • Custom-styled QR codes, with download and scan tracking on every link.

Improved

  • First-run experience rework — a guided product tour, a clear path to your first shortened link, and a referral mission that pays in capped bonus links: +3 when a friend signs up, +10 more when they upgrade.
  • Sign-in and sign-up redesigned with a rotating product showcase beside the form — and if you arrived with a link to claim, a live preview of it waiting on the other side of signup.
  • Top-to-bottom responsive pass — the homepage, dashboard, and link pages now hold up cleanly from phone to laptop to wide desktop; charts reflow the instant you collapse the sidebar, and wide tables scroll sideways (header and rows together) instead of clipping columns.
  • Consistent copy feedback — every “copy” action now confirms with both a checkmark and a toast.

Announcement

  • Every shortened link now comes with an account behind it — and a real home. Create a link, claim it the instant you sign up, and watch it grow its own analytics page: clicks, sources, countries, the works. Free links keep for 15 days; on any paid plan they’re permanent. We’d rather earn the upgrade than hold your data hostage — and we’ll never need to know who clicked to show you it’s working. Counts, not people, all the way down.

Fixed

  • Bots and link-preview crawlers no longer count as clicks — your numbers reflect real people, not scrapers warming a link.
  • Links containing special characters now shorten and resolve correctly.
  • Scheduled downgrades keep your paid tier and its features until the end of the billing period you already paid for.
  • Zapier endpoints are correctly gated to the Growth tier.
  • Faster page loads across the app.
May 2026

Public status page, comparison hub, referral rework, footer redesign

The month TrimLink stopped looking like a side project and started looking like a real product. We finished the comparison-page push (one per major competitor), tore up the referral program and rebuilt it on infrastructure we can actually deliver against, redesigned the footer to give it the bones a finished SaaS needs — and shipped a public status page at status.trimlink.co because reliability is a feature, not a footnote.

New

  • Public status page at status.trimlink.co — real-time uptime for Website, Dashboard, Auth, Link Redirects (routing + DB-backed sentinel), API, Click Tracking, and Checkout & Billing. Powered by Better Stack with 3-min checks, 90-day uptime history per service, and incident timelines you can share with your team.
  • Live system-health pill in the footer — now reflects the same Better Stack aggregate as the public page, so an Auth or billing-partner outage actually moves it (not just our own DB).
  • Dedicated comparison pages at /vs/bitly, /vs/dub, /vs/short-io, and /vs/rebrandly — each with verified pricing, side-by-side feature tables, and a scoreboard of hero savings stats.
  • Referral rewards reworked from "1 free Pro month" to capped bonus links — +3 per signup, +10 more per paid upgrade. Cleaner, more deliverable, scales without bookkeeping debt.
  • Public /referrals explainer page (auth-aware — signed-in visitors see their actual link + share buttons + stat snapshot) plus a /dashboard/referrals deep-dive.
  • Manually-curated /changelog (you are here) with monthly anchors and shareable URLs.
  • Multi-currency pricing display with IP-based geo detection — prices render in the visitor’s local currency automatically.

Improved

  • Footer redesign: 5-column nav (Product / Free Tools / Resources / Compare / Company), Featured On row with Trustpilot rating chip, brand wordmark + tagline anchor on the left, GDPR-aligned legal strip below.
  • Workspaces page rebuilt — cleaner switching flow, usage placeholders, faster team management UX.
  • Pricing page rebuilt with audience tabs (Individual / Team & Enterprise) and a per-card billing toggle. New /pricing/compare for the full feature matrix.
  • Landing page redesign — clearer hero, polished empty states, sharper CTA hierarchy.
  • In-app plan change + downgrade modals — no more bouncing to Polar for routine billing actions.
  • Launch-promo system reworked with eligibility enforcement in checkout — no more stale promos leaking into the wrong flows.
  • Calm brand-aligned error boundary replaces the default Next error page.

Announcement

  • We believe uptime transparency is part of the product, not something you stumble across after an outage. status.trimlink.co is now reachable from the footer pill, the Company nav, and directly — and we will publish incident timelines publicly going forward, even for short blips. The same standard incumbents reserve for enterprise customers, available to everyone on day one.

Fixed

  • LinkedIn referral share switched from the deprecated share-offsite endpoint to the modern compose-intent URL — prefilled text now actually appears.
  • Logo wordmark cap-height rebalanced against the icon tile so the lockup reads as one unit at every size.
  • High-severity dependency vulnerabilities patched.
Early 2026

Contact form, smoother checkout, SEO + resource polish

A quieter run before the May push — added the /contact route so people could talk to us directly, smoothed the launch-promo flow so codes carry through checkout without re-entry, and finished the SEO groundwork (structured data, meta, canonicals) that every comparison page now builds on.

New

Improved

  • Active promo code auto-applies through all checkout flows so users never have to re-enter a code mid-funnel.
  • SEO foundations laid across marketing pages — structured data, meta improvements, canonical handling.

Fixed

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