shawnwildermuth / shawnlink

Project to make editable short links

ShawnL.ink

My project for my short link site. Bitly is cool, but you can't edit the links. Let's see how much trouble I get into here!

I use bit.ly but I hate that I can't edit the links to update them. So I decided to build a tiny project to handle my common links that I might want to update for vanity short urls.

Couple of things to note:

• I purposely avoided using MVC or any framework.
• I wanted to use top-level statements to shorten the code.
• I wanted it to be aggresively cached to speed up the expansion.
• Ended up using Azure SQL when Cosmos DB was too slow and too expensive.
• Supports more than one domain.
• I am using Azure AD just to only allow me to get to the admin pages and API.

Take a look. It's not perfect or production solid. But it was fun.

Here are a couple of shortened links:

• https://shawnl.ist/ps
• https://shawnl.ist/yt
• https://imfinel.ink/teaser

I explained what I was doing in a recent talk.

Feel free to fork and use it on your own.