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Hey everyone. I'm excited to launch Toad: a simple URL shortener with all the features needed to be your go-to shortener solution. I built it because I wanted a new way to generate short URLs, and I was annoyed with the existing solutions. I find other solutions limiting, and they overcomplicate their APIs. Features: - Easy to use dashboard where you can create, update and remove links - Simple full-featured API - Custom domain support - so you can use your domain and branding - Performant - ~100ms redirect (that should come down over time as I add a few optimizations) - Detailed analytics with visit counts, browsers, etc. - Scalable out of the box using a fully serverless stack - Team management support so you can invite your teammates Here is the stack I used: - Next.js (https://nextjs.org/) with Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com/) - Supabase (https://supabase.io/) - database - Vercel (https://vercel.com/) - hosting - Checkly (https://www.checklyhq.com/) - monitoring - Bugsnag (https://www.bugsnag.com/) - bug tracking - Heap (https://heap.io/) - analytics - Stripe (https://stripe.com/) - payments (blog post to come on this stack)

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4yr ago

Nicholas Mohnacky

GlobalClimateCrisis.org

@zlwaterfield Congrats Zach. For someone who isn't an engineer, what's the benefit of Toad over bit.ly?

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4yr ago

Zach Waterfield

Refined Zapier

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Hey @mohnacky, thanks! Toad is meant to simplify a lot of the bit.ly concepts, especially the API. In the near future, I plan to open source it so anyone can use it themselves.

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4yr ago

Vladimír Seman

Gleek

@zlwaterfield great job, i like shorteners and yours rock!

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4yr ago

Andre Lima

@zlwaterfield Oh, an open source version to host with Vercel + Supabase will be welcomed by many, I'm sure! 👏 …As the main reason many of us don't use these shorteners is: "we don't know how long it'll last!" 😀

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4yr ago

Zach Waterfield

Refined Zapier

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@andre_lima3 Totally understandable, for the record Toad is self-running and I never plan to shut it down but I share the sentiment.

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4yr ago

Matthew Wildrick Thomas

Think Tutor

Hi, would you be interested in a colab where we use your product to shorten links generated by https://hash.mwt.me This service generates long URLs which contain base64 encoded markdown and LaTeX.

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4yr ago

Zach Waterfield

Refined Zapier

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@mattwthomas oh cool, ya lets chat! Want to shoot me an email? zlwaterfield@gmail.com

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