Tinchy

Uh, so... tinchy

tin·chy adj. smaller than tiny.

Yep, it's a ridiculously simple and compact (less than 40 lines) personal URL shortener that takes fatty URLS and makes them tinchy.

Tinchy urls are in the form of http://domain.com/abc

Dependancies

Just Node 0.6+ and the Express framework. No database needed, tinchy persists URLs on the filesystem using JSON, so no database is needed.

I also wrote a python version of Tinchy.

Give it to me in bullets

• Personal URL shortener.

• <40 lines of code.

• Express is the only dependency.

• No database needed, files are persisted to the filesystem as JSON files.

• Good for storing a few thousand personal URLs, if you expect to be storing tens of thousands then look somewhere else. This is not a bitly clone :).

• Do whatever you want with it.

• I hope it wont blow up but if it does then sorry :(