ShortCut - Blazingly fast URL Shortener with great analytics built in
- Provides a great visual analytics of your short links.
- Fastest redirects to your original URL.
- No need to wait for the page to load.
Overview video
Here's a short video that explains the project and how it uses Redis:
How is it blazingly fast?
It gets the required information that is necessary for redirect directly from redis
With the help of redis-search
the time taken for retrieval is super fast. Along with this excellent retrieval time, I deployed serverless
functions on the edge
so the redirects are faster
So as a combination of both redis and next js we were able to achieve it.
Future scopes that will be added On a higher level, these are the future scopes that are possible to add.
- Using
redis
for saving and fetching analytics. - Ability to share…