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Show HN: sus – static site based URL shortener

13 points by nkantar 6y ago

llagerlof 6y ago
Your project looks like my last one: very useful, but nobody understood the purpose.
- nkantar 6y ago
  Haha, thank you! I imagine a fair few people get it, but don't share the needs that motivated me to make and publish it.
captn3m0 6y ago
I like the simpleness of the idea here, but don't like HTML-redirects (v/s 302s).. Wondering if you could just do this via Netlify redirects? I've found using txtd.io as a URL-shortener a much simpler approach. Or lightsaber, which does the exact same thing, but with Ruby (and allows some wildcards): https://github.com/captn3m0/lightsaber https://github.com/captn3m0/lightsaber
- nkantar 6y ago
  Netlify redirects would work, but I wanted more portability. Hard to beat good ol' static HTML!
gwern 6y ago
URL shortening is just one use case for generating redirects. I wrote a similar module for Hakyll ('Hakyll.Web.Redirect' https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.13.4.0/docs/Hakyll-Web-Redirect.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.13.4.0/docs/Hak...) but my intent was to allow renaming pages without breaking links and fixing the (truly innumerable) number of user errors in linking/writing URLs. Because every original URL must be a valid file name, it does limit you compared to the full rewrite capabilities of Apache or Nginx, but that's the price you pay for a fully-static site. (I thought vaguely about writing some JS you could put in a 404.html to snoop the intended URL and do a lookup in a table to redirect to, but never got around to figuring out the details.)
blaisio 6y ago
I don't think it's a big deal, but I was confused for a minute, because sus in English slang is short for suspect/suspicious.
- nkantar 6y ago
  I consider that a feature, not a bug! Others may disagree, though. :D
djyde 6y ago
Cool. I made one similar https://github.com/djyde/genlink https://github.com/djyde/genlink
stp-ip 6y ago
We went the direction of DNS based redirects using a set of TXT records to get portability and delegation of subpaths with txtdirect.org (FOSS based on Caddy) Currently working on a new iteration and feedback is always appreciated.

13 points by nkantar 6y ago

llagerlof 6y ago

Your project looks like my last one: very useful, but nobody understood the purpose.

nkantar 6y ago
Haha, thank you! I imagine a fair few people get it, but don't share the needs that motivated me to make and publish it.

captn3m0 6y ago

I like the simpleness of the idea here, but don't like HTML-redirects (v/s 302s).. Wondering if you could just do this via Netlify redirects? I've found using txtd.io as a URL-shortener a much simpler approach. Or lightsaber, which does the exact same thing, but with Ruby (and allows some wildcards): https://github.com/captn3m0/lightsaber https://github.com/captn3m0/lightsaber

nkantar 6y ago
Netlify redirects would work, but I wanted more portability. Hard to beat good ol' static HTML!

gwern 6y ago

URL shortening is just one use case for generating redirects. I wrote a similar module for Hakyll ('Hakyll.Web.Redirect' https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.13.4.0/docs/Hakyll-Web-Redirect.html https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.13.4.0/docs/Hak...) but my intent was to allow renaming pages without breaking links and fixing the (truly innumerable) number of user errors in linking/writing URLs. Because every original URL must be a valid file name, it does limit you compared to the full rewrite capabilities of Apache or Nginx, but that's the price you pay for a fully-static site. (I thought vaguely about writing some JS you could put in a 404.html to snoop the intended URL and do a lookup in a table to redirect to, but never got around to figuring out the details.)

blaisio 6y ago

I don't think it's a big deal, but I was confused for a minute, because sus in English slang is short for suspect/suspicious.

nkantar 6y ago
I consider that a feature, not a bug! Others may disagree, though. :D

djyde 6y ago

Cool. I made one similar https://github.com/djyde/genlink https://github.com/djyde/genlink

stp-ip 6y ago

We went the direction of DNS based redirects using a set of TXT records to get portability and delegation of subpaths with txtdirect.org (FOSS based on Caddy) Currently working on a new iteration and feedback is always appreciated.