Hello World!
I have struggled to find a free and simple URL Shortener, some are complicated some are more than what they are supposed to be, others are not free, and the likes of bitly or TinyURL are oversaturated making it impossible to find decent custom and short URLs. So, I decided to create a simple version of all those URL shorteners.
How hard can it be to just create a simple URL shortener?
Not but, basically you need 1dabase to store 1 table, that stores the short ID and the URL, and create some logic to create the smallest possible URL, starting with short.com/a, short.com/b, short.com/c, etc... In my case, I used Uppercase and lowercase, it may cause some issues with the old browser, but I don't care much about that.
You can try our here use it as it is, https://revlk.com - you can create and customize your short links for free.
End up adding a simple way to authentication without a password, and in that way, you can view and manage all your URLs. There are some statistics and stuff but still needs some work and polish.
peace out 