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Chhoto URL
Blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener; written in Rust.
It's a simple, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features. Simplicity and speed are the main foci of this project. The scratch docker image is <4.5 MB (compressed), the alpine one is <8.5 MB (compressed), and it uses <10 MB of RAM under regular use. Most URL shorteners are either bloated with unnecessary features, or are a pain to set up. Even fewer are written with simplicity and lightness in mind. So, I decided to fix that.
It's written in async Rust, using Actix Web as the backend. The frontend is written in html, css, and vanilla javascript. Links are stored in an SQLite database. It really is as simple and as fast as it gets.
No tracking. No bullshit. Blazingly fast.
About Chhoto URL on Product Hunt
“Blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener; written in Rust.”
Chhoto URL was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. It's a simple, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features. Simplicity and speed are the main foci of this project. The scratch docker image is <4.5 MB (compressed), the alpine one is <8.5 MB (compressed), and it uses <10 MB of RAM under regular use. Most URL shorteners are either bloated with unnecessary features, or are a pain to set up. Even fewer are written with simplicity and lightness in mind. So, I decided to fix that.
On the analytics side, Chhoto URL competes within API, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 208.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Chhoto URL performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Chhoto URL?
Chhoto URL was hunted by Sayantan Santra. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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