the team from pipehorse brings another revolutionary product - floyd url shortner. The user inputs the desired url to be shortened and recieves the shortened url.

1. Floyd
By: @pipehorse
Simple URL Shortener

2. What is Floyd?
● Floyd is a website that allows a user to shorten any URL that they input.
● The website could be accessed using http://pipehorse.holberton.us/
● After inputting URL into input box, the server will respond with a shortened
URL.

3. Team
CEO
Omar Contreras
Project Manager
Isaac Wong
Marketing
Germaine Balmania
John Dinh
Frontend
Lisa Olson
Afa Madza
Backend
Madison Burke
Miranda Evans
Devops
Adekunle Adeniran
Mitali Sengupta
Derek Kwok

4. Technologies Used
● Flask - Gets access
● JQuery
● HTML/CSS
● Nginx - Web Server
● Bootstrap
● Python3 (v3.4.3)
● Ubuntu (v14.04 LTS)
● Any web browser

5. Product Flow
Client sends URL to server
Server checks storage if existing short URL already exists
If it exists:
return pre-existing short URL
If it doesn’t exist:
create short URL, save in storage, return short URL

6. API Walkthrough

7. Final Product

8. Future Work
Integrate MySQL/SQLAlchemy
Validate user input/URL
Incorporate Analytics