Dub is a tool for creating short links and tracking clicks and conversions, with support for affiliate programs. It is aimed at marketing teams and businesses, and can be self-hosted or used as a paid hosted service.
YOURLS is a self-hosted URL shortener that turns long web links into short ones. It is for people who want to run their own link shortening service and keep control of their data.
Kutt is a free program that turns long web addresses into short links, and it can use your own domain name. It is for people who want to run their own link shortener on their own server instead of using a paid service like Bitly.
Shlink is a URL shortener you install on your own server, so short links use your own domain and click statistics stay with you. It is aimed at people and teams who want to run their own link shortening service instead of using a hosted one.
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Planning something for an alternative to Bitly? See what exists first, so you can reuse parts or explain what's different. Paste this into any AI assistant:
Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/link-shortening.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Bitly, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Dub (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/dubinc/dub; replaces fully): Dub is a tool for creating short links and tracking clicks and conversions, with support for affiliate programs. It is aimed at marketing teams and businesses, and can be self-hosted or used as a paid hosted service.
- Yourls (MIT, https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS; replaces fully): YOURLS is a self-hosted URL shortener that turns long web links into short ones. It is for people who want to run their own link shortening service and keep control of their data.
- Kutt (MIT, https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt; replaces fully): Kutt is a free program that turns long web addresses into short links, and it can use your own domain name. It is for people who want to run their own link shortener on their own server instead of using a paid service like Bitly.
- Shlink (MIT, https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink; replaces fully): Shlink is a URL shortener you install on your own server, so short links use your own domain and click statistics stay with you. It is aimed at people and teams who want to run their own link shortening service instead of using a hosted one.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
