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HOP-101High priority

Short links for campaign URLs

Priya Nair · Product Manager

Customers keep asking for short links they can put on flyers. Short is the whole point. Oh, and the same URL twice shouldn't give five different links…

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  • Codes only use letters and digits
  • Same URL → same code
  • Reject anything that isn't http(s)

$ ctest -L m1

✔ 6 / 6 tests passed

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Link shortener for Hopwire

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Hopwire

Link shortener for Hopwire

Build the core of Hopwire's link shortener: turn long campaign URLs into short codes and back again, then give the support team a console to use it.

  • hash maps
  • number bases
  • input validation
  • streams
  • unit tests
~8 h3 milestonesC++PythonJavaC#

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