Can I vibecode Bitly?
price $35/moyou'd save $420/yrbuild time one sittingcategory analyticsreplaced by 1 people
YES
MOATbrand trustinfrastructure scale
A slug, a lookup, a 302, and a row in a table. Cloudflare Workers plus KV and D1 does the whole job on the free tier, and QR codes are one library call. The only thing you are really buying is that bit.ly resolves links created in 2012 and will presumably still resolve them in 2032, which is an institutional promise rather than a technical one. If the links are going in a magazine ad or on packaging, that promise is worth something. If they are going in this week's newsletter, it is worth nothing, and Growth is 420 USD a year.
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promote your product in the vibecoded listThe Build Prompt
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Build me a link shortener with click analytics and QR codes to replace Bitly. Requirements:
- Cloudflare Workers via wrangler: KV for the slug lookup, D1 for the click
log. Free tier, and it runs on my own domain.
- A worker on go.mydomain.com/{slug} reads KV and 302s, writing the click to
D1 inside ctx.waitUntil so the redirect never waits on the database.
- Slugs are random 6-character base62 by default, but I can set a custom
back-half, and creating one that already exists fails loudly instead of
overwriting it.
- Log per click: slug, timestamp, country and city from request.cf,
device type parsed from the user-agent, and referer.
- Generate a PNG QR code for any link with the qrcode npm package, served at
/qr/{slug} and cached, so print material points at the same tracked link.
- Optional expiry and a click cap per link · past either, 302 to a fallback
URL I set instead of returning a 404.
- An /admin page behind one password (wrangler secret) listing links with
clicks per day, plus top countries and device split per link.
- Secrets via wrangler secret, never in wrangler.toml. No accounts, no
third-party analytics, no telemetry.
- README: wrangler setup, the KV namespace and D1 database, the DNS record,
and a warning that these links die with the domain, so use a domain you
intend to keep renewing.In-List Ad$79/30 days
promote your product in the vibecoded listWhat you lose
- ✕Hosted infrastructure and managed operations from Bitly
- ✕The original service's mature integrations and ecosystem
Prior art / alternatives
Dub The most complete open-source link
Dub The most complete open-source link platform · analytics, custom domains, QR codes. Self-hostable. ↗
Shlink Self-hosted URL shortener with a REST API, click stats, and QR codes. ↗
Shlink Self-hosted URL shortener with a REST API, click stats, and QR codes. ↗
YOURLS The long-running PHP
YOURLS The long-running PHP shortener · drop it on any LAMP host and it works. ↗
Why it still works
🛡️ brand & trust · 🏗️ infrastructure scale
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