pchoi.me

A personal URL shortener, inspired by Kent C Dodds

Basic steps to get your own shortlinks up and running:

1. Pick up a custom domain from a domain registrar like namecheap.com or iwantmyname.com
2. Init a repo with a _redirect file, with a line like /slug http://example.com, where the 1st arg is the relative path, and 2nd is where you want to redirect to
3. Setup a new site in Netlify and link your repo
4. Add your custom domain in "Domain Settings"

And thats it!

If you get some 'site not secure' errors, just wait a few hours for the domains and SSL certs to fully propgate thru DNS, but you should otherwise be good!

Bonus steps:

• add netlify-shortener as a dev dependency to be able to auto-format when adding new links
• add netlify-shortener as a shell alias to be enable creating quick short links from the cli