Hey hunters 👋 I’m Barat, the maker of shrl.io. I built this because I was tired of giving third-party URL shorteners full visibility into every click — and most self-hosted alternatives either lacked solid analytics or felt heavy to run. shrl.io is a privacy-first, high-performance, self-hosted URL shortener + traffic analyzer: - 🔒 Your data stays on your servers — visitor IPs are never stored - ⚡ Sub-millisecond redirects (Redis-backed, database never on the hot path) - 📊 Rich analytics: visits, unique visitors, time series, referrers, devices, browsers, geo, and all 6 UTM parameters - 👥 Built-in teams, invite codes, admin UI, API keys, QR codes - 🏠 One podman/docker compose up -d and you’re running the full stack It’s open source and still pre-1.0, so feedback from people who actually self-host link tools is especially welcome. Curious to hear: - What do you currently use for shortening + click tracking? - Any must-have features you’d want before putting it in production? GitHub → https://github.com/barats/shrl-io Site → https://shrl.io

shrl.io

A privacy-first, self-hosted URL shortener & analyzer.

A privacy-first, self-hosted URL shortener & analyzer.