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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by woutr_be on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:04AM (#25111112)
That’s clever! I once did the same, except I used a static site generator that I would push to Github and deploy on Netlify.
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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by iamacyborg on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:32AM (#25111390)
Yeah I suspect you could do something nifty along these lines with Netlify Functions.
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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by woutr_be on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:16AM (#25112673)
I didn’t even use Netlify functions, it was all just HTML and a few lines of JavaScript.
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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by robbiemitchell on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:10AM (#25111166)
I’d love to know more about how you did this!
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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by davchana on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:09AM (#25146713)
I too did exactly same, as linjed here in this thread itself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113154

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Re:Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely h... by woutr_be on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:16AM (#25112666)
It’s really simple; I used Jekyll, every URL was a post with a simple template that did the redirection.
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