onefact/free-url-shortening-on-amazon-s3-on-free-tier

Shortlinks to give to One Fact or to give one fact

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🐂 + 💩 Demo (redirection rules below to let you create your own shortlinks such as puns.onefact.org/create :) This is like Bitly but free! As a small nonprofit, we can't afford custom URL shortening with services like Bitly ( $348/year for custom domain support). The alternative we found is to simply create redirect rules in Amazon S3 and edit a single json file.

Hacker News discussions

Couldn't afford custom domain URL shorteners – open-sourced our S3 free approach (4 points, 1 comments, by jaan, 2023-05-10)