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steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

The link still works, and the link still gets tracked in redis, you just won't be able to see the stats for the link until you upgrade. It's a similar model to Plausible.io, which I think is really fair! Let me know what you think! :)

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Appreciate the kind words! :)

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Agreed – the plan is to keep this running as long as possible, and the freemium AGPL model is a great way to get there in a sustainable pace! :)

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Love these lol, really gave me a good laugh when I saw them in the past

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Hey Tim! Thanks a lot for sharing your experience with T.LY! I'm definitely going to implement some abuse prevention measures over the next few days. My first instinct is to prevent folks from pointing shortlinks to certain malicious sites – do you think that'll be enough? Or are there other abuse vectors?

Also, very interesting note regarding the hash combinations! The main focus of Dub is probably going to be for folks to add their own domains – but this is something that I'll keep in mind as well!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Thanks for the headsup re: the lag – there's some performance issues with the Globe animation that I'm trying to fix right now, sorry about that!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

It's basically an effort to promote code transparency + user privacy, and in general it's just super fun building in public! :)

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

No plans yet, but you can easily clone this repo and deploy your own version on platforms like Vercel.com, no docker containers required! :)

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

lol that would've been amazing haha

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

That's exactly the next thing on my roadmap! Thanks for the suggestion!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Oh my word! Good catch lol I'm not sure how that broke, will fix now!

And thanks a lot for the kind words!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Very good point, I'm going to try and add some abuse prevention measures to make sure the domain doesn't get blacklisted!

In the meantime, you can also use your own custom domain for maximum control: https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1572958205814214657

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Oh nooo :( what's the specs of your computer? I'm gonna try and optimize this further tonight!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Very good questions! I was actually thinking about that right before launching last night!

I'm planning to blacklist certain problematic hostnames and not let folks add them.

In terms of rate limits, it does have rate limits when it comes to collecting analytics (if you spam click a link >10 times in 10s it still redirects you but it stops recording clicks.

I can't think of how URL looping could bypass checking – could you elaborate?

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Just wanted to chime in and say that QR Codes are next on the roadmap! Would be fun to learn how to build those

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Hey! I believe it's the globe animation, it uses a very simple stripped down version of webgl & threejs (based on the lib: https://cobe.vercel.app/)

Gonna think about how I can optimize that further! Thanks for the headsup!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Ahh yes I believe it's the globe animation, it uses a very simple stripped down version of webgl & threejs (based on the lib: https://cobe.vercel.app/)

Gonna think about how I can optimize that further! Thanks for the headsup y'all!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Yeah I was thinking about that right before launching last night, gonna go ahead and add some simple abuse prevention measures now!

My first idea is blacklisting certain problematic hostnames and not let folks add them. Can you think of any other abuse vectors?

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

So glad to hear that!!

steventeyon Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

Funny thing – I actually had to do some regex validation for domain submissions from users and this was one of the edge cases I had to account for haha

Here's the regex that I ended up with: https://github.com/steven-tey/dub/blob/main/lib/utils.ts#L12...

steventeyon Show HN: BlockNote – a “Notion-style” block-based text editor

This is so freaking beautiful!! Absolutely love the UX and animation effects!!

steventeyon Non Fungible Tickets

I feel you on that lol!!

steventeyon Non Fungible Tickets

"Contrast this to the usual signup flow of other conferences, where you have to provide enough info to get Pentagon clearance”

Brilliant piece Swyx!!!

steventeyon Show HN: Collaborative event registration with WebGL and WebSockets

the engineering that went into this site is insane – given also how performant it is in production globally

steventeyon Forms should be apps: Why I'm building Component

This is incredible!! Congrats on shipping this :D