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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by bko on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:43AM (#25026429)
Good point, maybe leverage a link shortener built into the app?
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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by catchmeifyoucan on Sunday November 08, 2020 @10:44AM (#25026439)
Yup, but you’d still need a database since you need to store that lookup somewhere from long URL to short url.
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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by robotwizard on Sunday November 08, 2020 @11:07AM (#25026629)
What about using an IPFS key and using js-ipfs to look it up?
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Re:Show HN: Baller ToDo – a no-list todo app by catchmeifyoucan on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:07PM (#25027090)
If I'm not mistaken. I think IPFS keys might also be too long. Since a shortcode is only 6 chars long.

Here's the website[1] I built with base64 encoding to share weblinks. I've been trying to think of a non-db approach, but haven't found one yet for link shortening.

[1] http://share.getamna.com

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