How to get notified when someone clicks your link

You sent the link. Now you're refreshing a dashboard wondering if anyone opened it. There's a better way: get notified the instant someone clicks, instead of checking a counter hours later.

Why a notification beats a click count

A number tells you something happened. A notification tells you to act now. When a prospect opens your proposal, the best time to follow up is the next few minutes — while you're top of mind. A daily click report can't do that. A ping on your phone can.

Three ways to get click alerts

1. Webhooks + a custom script. Most shorteners (Bitly, Dub) can fire a webhook on a click. You can wire that to Slack or email with a bit of code or a Zapier zap. Powerful, but it's setup you have to build and maintain.
2. Zapier "new click" zaps. No code, but you're limited by Zapier's polling intervals and task limits — "real-time" becomes "every few minutes."
3. A shortener that notifies you out of the box. This is the simplest: shorten the link, choose where the ping lands (push, email, WhatsApp), share it. Done.

How Clikt does it

Clikt is a link shortener built around the alert. Every link can ping you by email, push notification, or WhatsApp the second it's clicked — with the city, device and time. The first click fires instantly; busy links roll into a digest so you're never spammed. Bots and link-preview crawlers are filtered out, so you only hear about real humans.

Make a free link → and watch the first notification land.