Ume.la Shortener

referbot is the Telegram companion to ume.la, a standalone link-shortening service — a chat-based front door to that service rather than an entirely separate product. Send it any long URL and it replies with a shortened ume.la link almost instantly, with no account creation or payment step involved.

Beyond basic shortening, the bot surfaces statistics for the links it creates, a step up from bots that only hand back a short URL and nothing else — enough to get a rough read on whether people are actually clicking through. Because it's tied to an existing shortening service rather than being a standalone hobby project, there's at least a company-level product behind it, which tends to mean more predictable uptime than a one-person side project.

That said, the bot itself keeps a low profile: its Telegram bio is a short one-liner, and most of what's confirmed about how it behaves comes from user reports rather than an official changelog or feature page. For anyone already comfortable with ume.la as a shortening service, or who just wants the fastest way to compress a link inside a Telegram chat without hunting through a website, this bot does the job in a couple of messages. Custom aliases, branded domains, or campaign-level analytics call for a more full-featured tool — this one is built for speed and simplicity, not depth.