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ShortCut - Blazingly fast URL Shortener with great analytics built in
Publish Date: Aug 29 '22
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Overview of My Submission
Short Cut is blazingly fast URL shortner service. It is built on top of redis.
Provides a great visual analytics of your short links.
Redis Insight was very helpful while the whole process right from debugging, visualising and more.
Link to Code
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P.S: There would be more amazing things coming up in the repo, which you wouldn't want to miss out.
A few of them include
It gets the required information that is necessary for redirect directly from redis
With the help of redis-search the time taken for retrieval is super fast. Along with this excellent retrieval time, I deployed serverless functions on the edge so the redirects are faster
So as a combination of both redis and next js we were able to achieve it.
Future scopes that will be added
On a higher level, these are the future scopes that are possible to add.
It gets the required information that is necessary for redirect directly from redis.
With the help of redis-search the time taken for retrieval is super fast. Along with this excellent retrieval time, I deployed serverless functions on the edge so the redirects are faster.
So as a combination of both redis and next js we were able to achieve it.
Future scopes that will be added
On a higher level, these are the future scopes that are possible to add.
Using redis for saving and fetching analytics.
Ability to share links dashboard with others.
Protected links, with passwords.
Time based analytics, to know at what time the link was clicked the most.
