Trizlink

A short link is a redirect somebody else owns.

That is fine right up until the somebody stops paying for it.

Link shorteners were commoditised years ago. Anybody can build one in an afternoon, which is why so many have appeared and then quietly closed, taking every printed QR code and every business card still in circulation down with them.

So the first constraint here is the one this whole practice works under. Free-tier infrastructure, no paid backend in the critical path: Firebase for auth, data and hosting, with FilesHub for uploads.

A redirect has to stay cheap at any volume, because a redirect that becomes expensive is a redirect that eventually stops resolving.

Analytics is where that gets sharp.

A click is one write and a dashboard is a read of a great many of them, so every list read carries an explicit limit and the database does the counting rather than the browser. Get that wrong and the free tier is exhausted by the product's most popular link.

Shortening comes with custom slugs and branded domains.

A link-in-bio builder handles the ordering by drag and drop, so the page can be rearranged by the person who owns it rather than by whoever has the code open.

Click analytics carries breakdowns. D3 and visx draw them.

Custom domains, workspaces and team invites exist because a link representing a company should not live inside one employee's personal account, and because the day that employee leaves is a bad day to discover it does.

Then a suite of 50+ utilities: QR and barcode generators, colour tools, PDF tools, text tools, SEO tools and code tools.

The same React 19 codebase ships as the web application and as a Capacitor Android build on Google Play. A browser extension that shortens from whatever tab you are already in is planned, not shipped.

149 Vitest unit tests and a Cypress suite hold the shared half of that together. The stack stays current: React 19 with the Compiler, TypeScript 6, Vite 8.

Prerendered FAQPage and SoftwareApplication structured data mean an answer engine reads the product instead of an empty document.

The Radix theme customiser is user-facing rather than a developer setting, so the person using Trizlink chooses how it looks instead of inheriting whatever I happened to prefer on the day.

The costs are all in the long tail.

Custom domains are the feature that turns a product into a support desk. Somebody's DNS is somebody else's system, so when a record is wrong the link is dead and the product looks broken, whichever of the two of us made the mistake.

A 50+ tool suite is 50+ surfaces that all have to keep working. Each one is small. Together they are most of the maintenance.

That customiser only holds if every component reads a token. One hardcoded colour is invisible to it, and it stays invisible until somebody switches theme and finds the single panel that did not follow.

Honest analytics is less flattering than the other kind. Click counts include whatever did the clicking, and telling a person from a crawler is a judgement rather than a fact, so the number is a signal and not a census.

There is no iOS build here. There is no Apple Developer account behind this work, so Android and the web are where it has genuinely shipped.

A short link is worth exactly as much as the promise that it will still resolve next year. Everything above is an argument that this one will.