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Notes from building shrtn.ink — Rust, tako, SurrealDB, and running a URL shortener in production.
August 25, 2026 · 7 min read
Link-in-bio pages, on the same links you already have
shrtn.ink now hosts link-in-bio pages at /@handle — three per account, free, with the same per-link analytics as any short link. What that reuse buys, why the handle can never collide with a slug, and what the pages deliberately do not do.
July 16, 2026 · 9 min read
Designing a latency-critical redirect path on tako and SurrealDB
How shrtn.ink keeps its redirect to a single point-read, moves every write off the response path, and runs without a scheduler — and the framework requirements operating it surfaced in tako.