shrty.dev

A #BuildInPublic URL shortening service built on the Cloudflare Developer Platform.

What it uses

• Workers — Runtime
• Hono — Web framework
• KV — Stores slug-to-URL mappings
• Workers Analytics Engine — Tracks and reports on click events with geo metadata
• Workers AI — Powers the admin chat interface (@cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash) with tool calling

Admin

• /admin/ — Chat interface for managing shorties via natural language (create links, query analytics)
• /admin/analytics.html — Dashboard showing click counts per slug over the past 3 months

Resources

Setup your own

Prerequisites

Create a KV namespace for URL storage:

npx wrangler kv namespace create URLS

Update the kv_namespaces id in wrangler.jsonc with the returned namespace ID.

Create a Workers Analytics Engine API token with read access.

Copy .dev.vars.example to .dev.vars and fill in the values:

cp .dev.vars.example .dev.vars

Generate types:

npm run cf-typegen

Development

npm install
npm run dev

Deployment

npm run deploy