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I built a very, very basic one of these a month ago to shorten a couple of unruly domains I had. Supports static and dynamic endpoints that you define.

https://thesom.au/gh/shorturl

Intended to self host for free/minimal cost on CloudFlare, thus comes with built in analytics, BYO domain, etc.

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Love this, thanks for sharing!! Did you get to building out the analytics dashboard? Would love to check it out! :D

No dashboard, or web interface even - the idea is that you just use CF's worker analytics for usage stats. There's no storage / db sitting behind it, just a single file to deploy as a worker.

Logical next step would be to hook it into KV and include a basic auth/admin API for editing routes and retrieving stats. But even that would add a bucket load of complexity to what is essentially 20-30 lines of obtuse logic currently.

Definitely no plans to deploy as a service with custom domains and enterprise offerings :)

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