I'm about two days out from launching DS-SH a self-hosted URL shortener with a dashboard to create, view, and edit links, deployed with one Docker command. Before I lock the launch build: if you've self-hosted a link shortener before, what's the one thing that always ends up missing or broken? Genuinely want to hear it before this goes live
Every URL shortener you don't self-host means someone else owns your links — and someone else's outage, price hike, or shutdown becomes your problem. DS-SH is a self-hosted URL shortener with a clean dashboard for creating, viewing, and editing every link you've shortened, all running on your own infrastructure. Docker up, point your DNS, done. No accounts to manage on someone else's platform, no vendor lock-in — just links you control, end to end
