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CLUSTER SELF-SHORT-CLICK · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-17

Self-hosted URL shortener apps

This cluster is made up of self-hosted URL shortener web apps that create short links, track click counts, and manage links through a dashboard. Only two dated entries exist before the index start, so the cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Among members with traction activity, snip leads with 2 stars, followed by sani and opnTnyURL with 1 star each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2017: 1SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 2
FEB 2017OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01snip2★22 days—hobbySelf-hosted web app that shortens URLs with custom slugs, QR codes, expiring links, password protection, and click analytics.
  2. 02sani1★18 days—hobbySelf-hosted web app that shortens URLs, tracks click counts, and manages short links via a browser dashboard.
  3. 03opnTnyURL1★16 days—Self-hostable URL shortening app that lets users create short links, track clicks, and manage redirects.
  4. 04shrt0★9 days—Self-hosted web app that shortens URLs with custom slugs, tracks click counts,and applies rate limiting through a web interface for sharing and managing links.
  5. 05adulink0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted URL shortening service with an admin dashboard, custom aliases, click statistics, and access-controlled login.
  6. 06short-link-generator-catmiao0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted web app that shortens long URLs into short codes, manages link history, and tracks click counts through an admin dashboard.
  7. 07LnkShortener0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAn app that shortens URLs via share menu, using a self-hosted Polr server or default with analytics.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.