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URL Shortener
A small, fast URL shortening service. Custom short codes, click tracking, and a redirect path kept deliberately boring so it stays quick.
- year
- 2025
- role
- Full stack
- domain
- Web
- type
- Full Stack
What it took
- 01
Short codes generated from a base62 counter rather than random strings, so there are no collisions to retry.
- 02
Redirects resolve on a single indexed lookup and nothing else sits in that path.
- 03
Click counts recorded without blocking the redirect the visitor is waiting on.
built with
ReactDjangoPostgreSQLREST API