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Life & fun · November 6, 2015

Go library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs

A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs - lithammer/shortuuid

Go library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs launched on November 6, 2015 with 50 votes, #1,785 of 4,110 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Shortuuid is a Go library that generates concise, unambiguous, and URL-safe unique identifiers. It creates shorter alternatives to standard UUIDs while maintaining clarity and safety for use in web URLs. The library is designed for developers who need compact identifier generation in Go applications.

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