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Dev tools · June 10, 2023

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Yo.link – Subdomain based URL shortener

I was looking for a pet project to try out recent additions to https://vercel.com platform, specifically their PostreSQL and Redis offering. They also provide easy to setup wildcard subdomain HTTPS certificates, and since I had yo.link domain lying around for a while, why not use it to create, yes, yet another, URL shortening service, but with a twist... Putting the user-selectable short-code in the subdomain has the advantage that it is the first thing that users read in a URL, and as such it is an opportunity to provide some contextual information about the link. Here are some…

Yo.link – Subdomain based URL shortener launched on June 10, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,793 of 4,655 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

I was looking for a pet project to try out recent additions to https://vercel.com platform, specifically their PostreSQL and Redis offering. They also provide easy to setup wildcard subdomain HTTPS certificates, and since I had yo.link domain lying around for a while, why not use it to create, yes, yet…

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