Linxy

A free alternative to bitly that is fast and effective. If the adding button loads for a while, you may have to wait for 30 +seconds. It's a detection system to check if your link is a phishing url. It should take less than a minute. I built this …

A free alternative to bitly that is fast and effective. If the adding button loads for a while, you may have to wait for 30 +seconds. It’s a detection system to check if your link is a phishing url. It should take less than a minute. I built this because I hate that Bitly has a lot of features blocked by a paywall!!

This project uses AI

Used ai for repetitive tasks as well as debugging. AI generated the README but I double checked it as well

Demo Repository

Hong Yu Lai shipped Linxy

20 days ago

Shipped this project!

Hours: 33.62

Cookies: 🍪 258

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THE HARDEST CHALLENGE:
I spent many hours trying to figure out how to fix the clerk issue such that when one subdomain uses clerk auth, and this project is running on another subdomain, this project completely fails. After a lot of testing and debugging, the issue was in the middleware where I had to disable clerk from initialising on external domains.
FUN NEW FEATURES:
I was inspired by websites that I had this suspense where it will tell you where it is going to redirect you to and add a countdown so i did similar.
New Features:
-New looks!!
-Addition of Destination URL Preview AKA suspense
-Fixed bug where if you add your own personal domain and your personal domain has a subdomain that uses clerk auth, the entire website fails.
-bug fixes!

Hong Yu Lai worked on Linxy

20 days ago

19h 2m logged

New looks!!
Addition of Destination URL Preview AKA suspense
Fixed bug where if you add your own personal domain and your personal domain has a subdomain that uses clerk auth, the entire website fails. (This part took super duper long as I had no idea what was going on)
bug fixes!