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.
• Fastest redirects to your original URL.
• No need to wait for the page to load.

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License
MIT

Submission Category:

Wacky Wildcards

Video Explainer of My Project

This is a short 12 min video explaining the project, how redis helped building this project.

Languages / Tools Used

• TypeScript
• Redis Stack
• Planetscale
• Next JS
• Next-Auth.js
• Prisma
• TailwindCSS
• tRPC
• Redis OM

Redis Insight was very helpful while the whole process right from debugging, visualising and more.

Link to Code

Star the repo if you liked it 😄
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

• Using redis for saving and fetching analytics.
• Ability to share links dashboard with others.
• Protected links, with passwords

Rohithgilla12 / short-cut

ShortCut - Blazingly fast URL Shortener with great analytics built in

• Provides a great visual analytics of your short links.
• Fastest redirects to your original URL.
• No need to wait for the page to load.

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Overview video

Here's a short video that explains the project and how it uses Redis:

https://youtu.be/FvetxMf6msY

How is it blazingly fast?

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…

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Additional Resources / Info

Screenshots

How is it blazingly fast?

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.
• Developer API to create the links.
• Marketplace to add widgets to the application.
• More ways for user to sign in.

Collaborators

Rohith GillaFollow

I code to keep up my sanity, code in multiple languages and frameworks. These are my favs Python | Flutter | TypeScript | JavaScript | React | Expo

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