That sounds like a the perfect use case for a small API… Sharing Links as a Service?!

Haha, I was actually under the impression that you made this in response to AddThis [1]. They basically do "sharing links as a service", plus analytics. It's not such a bad idea, since they were recently bought by Oracle for $175 million.

[1] http://www.addthis.com/

Damn son, maybe this IS a startup then. I revert my earlier comment![0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212911

Part of me screams "No, external service dependency is worse than javascript".

The other part says "Absolutely !".

Not sure how to respond.