Hi HN. I half-built a dumb link-shortening service in 2020 on API Gateway and DynamoDB, and never finished it, but that didn&#x27;t stop me from registering an &#x27;updog&#x27;-themed domain for it. I forgot about it until tonight and decided it was worth finishing this tool from a bygone era.<p>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&#x27;m hosting if you want, or clone it and deploy your own. Here are some of the characteristics:<p>It&#x27;s free-ish. It runs on Cloudflare&#x27;s free tier, which serves something like a hundred thousand requests a day.<p>It&#x27;s stateless-ish. Each link is an immutable JSON object in R2. No traditional databases or servers, nothing to re

  • 情报分类：项目价值、技术价值
  • 命中依据：可免费自部署的URL短链工具，实用项目
  • 来源：Hacker News 新项目
  • 原作者：6davids
  • 发布时间：2026/9/11 16:16:40