Progress report
2021-10-14 - Erik Stackenland
After a period of slow progress with development during summer we are now at full speed again developing the new version.
Status update on the new version
2021-05-24 - Erik Stackenland
Development of the new version of onelink.to is steadilly progressing. Our development team has divided the time with building the new platform and improving the existing service when needed, which has made the development of the new platform taking longer than what we hoped for.
We are aiming for a launch of the new version within a few months
Status update and Huawei AppGallery
2020-09-21 - Erik Stackenland
Platform development is progressing steadily. Since late spring 2020 the core engine has been running on the new platform and has never been better. In May traffic soared and we deployed a second core server to better handle spikes in traffic.
Even though we are working on the new platform, we do spend time doing updates on the old one as well. For the first time in a long while we are adding a new “device type”. This is to support new Huawei devices that no longer have access to Google Play services. We are handling these devices as a separate type of Android devices with their own download link.
So if you have your app on the Huawei AppGallery you can now add that link to your onelink.
At the same time we have opened up to use several more Android app stores, the complete list being: Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, Tencent App Store, Qihoo 360 App Store, Xiomi MIUI App Store, Baido App Store. All these can be used for Android and Huawei download links.
New Developments
2020-01-29 - Erik Stackenland
After living a quiet life the past years things are starting to change with onelink.to. Not that anything has been bad, just that there is so much more we can do.
From the end of last year onelink.to is operated under new management, not really in terms of people working with it, but in terms of ownership and ambition.
From the start in 2011 until now onelink.to has been running as a part of app development company Mobile Interaction, and have not really been given the love and attention it deserved. Now the intention is to take onelink.to to the next level by adding features, creating more value.
What has been done so far is to move hosting from a legacy VPS service to a more modern hosting using Google Cloud Platform. This has allowed us to finally add SSL support, which many of you have been requesting.
What’s next?
The first thing that will happen is that the entire service will be rewritten in a more modern platform to better allow for added features. After that we will concentrate on accounts and statistics. Further on we will probably start to look at functionality like deep linking and attribution, things that will require an SDK.
Freemium price model
We are proud to have been able to offer this service for free all this time. But to be able to offer more and better we will need to start charging for at least some parts of the service. The plan is to have a premium price model but with a free tier. A basic service available for free and the rest of the features at a premium. All existing onelink.to URLs at that time will continue to work with no change.