shortie[sic] is a dead simple url shortener that was designed to be a privacy-respecting alternative to services like tinyurl and bit.ly. It has out-of-the-box support for self-hosted instances and has even has a CLI!

Tried it out and works like a charm. Super simple, I like it :) Could you elaborate on what tinyurl and bit.ly are doing which you are not?

@kevinbensmith Well we don't have accounts, and we don't link what URL's you've created to any kind of fingerprint. Our database is a key-value where the key is the ending, and the value is the URL. No extra data stored.

Thx for the explanation!

This is just so cool and interesting. A simple and handy one. Congrats!

@basharath Thanks for the kind words!

I wrote this very simple url shortener to be an alternative to bloated programs like tinyurl and bit.ly. It's dead-simple and privacy respecting, as well as being open-source and self hostable! The website also has builtin support for self-hosted instances via a settings pane.

shortie.sh

A dead-simple url shortener that respects your privacy.

Do you use shortie.sh?

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