Toad

The simplest URL shortener

1 follower

Toad is the simplest URL shortener with a built-in API, detailed analytics, and custom domain support. Toad is built to be fun yet powerful. What's stopping you? Make the leap!
Toad gallery image
Toad gallery image
Toad gallery image
Toad gallery image
Launch Team
Intercom
Intercom
Startups get 90% off Intercom + 1 year of Fin AI Agent free
Promoted

What do you think? …

Zach Waterfield
Hey everyone. I'm excited to launch Toad: a simple URL shortener with all the features needed to be your go-to shortener solution. I built it because I wanted a new way to generate short URLs, and I was annoyed with the existing solutions. I find other solutions limiting, and they overcomplicate their APIs. Features: - Easy to use dashboard where you can create, update and remove links - Simple full-featured API - Custom domain support - so you can use your domain and branding - Performant - ~100ms redirect (that should come down over time as I add a few optimizations) - Detailed analytics with visit counts, browsers, etc. - Scalable out of the box using a fully serverless stack - Team management support so you can invite your teammates Here is the stack I used: - Next.js (https://nextjs.org/) with Tailwind (https://tailwindcss.com/) - Supabase (https://supabase.io/) - database - Vercel (https://vercel.com/) - hosting - Checkly (https://www.checklyhq.com/) - monitoring - Bugsnag (https://www.bugsnag.com/) - bug tracking - Heap (https://heap.io/) - analytics - Stripe (https://stripe.com/) - payments (blog post to come on this stack)
Nicholas Mohnacky
@zlwaterfield Congrats Zach. For someone who isn't an engineer, what's the benefit of Toad over bit.ly?
Zach Waterfield
Hey @mohnacky, thanks! Toad is meant to simplify a lot of the bit.ly concepts, especially the API. In the near future, I plan to open source it so anyone can use it themselves.
Vladimír Seman
@zlwaterfield great job, i like shorteners and yours rock!
Zach Waterfield
@andre_lima3 Totally understandable, for the record Toad is self-running and I never plan to shut it down but I share the sentiment.
Matthew Wildrick Thomas
Hi, would you be interested in a colab where we use your product to shorten links generated by https://hash.mwt.me This service generates long URLs which contain base64 encoded markdown and LaTeX.
Zach Waterfield
@mattwthomas oh cool, ya lets chat! Want to shoot me an email? zlwaterfield@gmail.com
Veranika Vinichenka
A very useful thing! And as easy to use as possible, thank you for it
Gabriel Eidler
Very cool product and already bookmarked it! Here's some UX suggestions for you: https://app.usebubbles.com/mnjWB... have a great day!
Zach Waterfield
@gabriel_eidler wow thanks! I will take a look. Love that you're using Bubbles.
Max Prilutskiy
Congrats on the launch! 💯
Laura Morrison
toadily cool
Paige Doherty
Congrats on Launch, Zach - this is awesome & so thoughtfully put together.
Zach Waterfield
12
Next
Last