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Growth · December 20, 2019

chl.li URL shortener

A simple, modern, free and privacy-friendly URL shortener.

chl.li URL shortener launched on December 20, 2019 with 132 votes, #152 of 2,946 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

chl.li is a URL shortener. A URL shortener. That's it. No tracking, no analytics. Just a URL shortener. Nothing more.

once entered, chl.li locally stores your API key so that you don't have to enter it every time you shorten a newfrom chl.li

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