What we shipped

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.
• API keys now reach every resource endpoint — links, analytics, QR codes, folders, and domains — so the whole product is scriptable, not just link creation. Every dashboard action has a documented, key-authenticated API behind it.
• A new abuse-prevention engine works quietly in the background, scoring signup and link-creation patterns to keep spam and abuse off the platform — invisible to real users, and protecting everyone’s link quality and deliverability.

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.
• A conversion-first take on click caps — when a link reaches your monthly tracked-click limit it pauses gracefully, with a clear in-app path (and a matching email) to restore it, instead of silently dropping clicks. Move to a paid plan and capped links resume the instant access lands.

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.
• Clicks are now recorded before the redirect fires, and keep counting even if the usage-quota cache is briefly unavailable — so your numbers stay complete under load.
• Click caps are enforced consistently — both when a link is created and before it redirects — so limits behave the same everywhere.
• Personal-workspace API scope and workspace-tier plan limits now resolve correctly, closing the gaps between what your plan grants and what the app enforces.

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.

New

• Public /contact page with form submission routed to hello@trimlink.co.

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

• Download flow for free resources patched — `/resources/utm-cheatsheet`, `/qr-best-practices`, and `/link-tracking-guide` now deliver the PDFs correctly.