Updog.link – a URL shortener you can run for free

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Updog.link – a URL shortener you can run for free operates in show hn launch.

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Hi HN. I half-built a dumb link-shortening service in 2020 on API Gateway and DynamoDB, and never finished it, but that didn't stop me from registering an 'updog'-themed domain for it. I forgot about it until tonight and decided it was worth finishing this tool from a bygone era.I scrapped everything and moved to more modern tools: one script on a Cloudflare Worker, with the links (and the Terraform state) in R2. You can use what I'm hosting if you want, or clone it and deploy your own. Here are some of the characteristics:It's free-ish. It runs on Cloudflare's free tier, which serves something like a hundred thousand requests a day.It's stateless-ish. Each link is an immutable JSON object i

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