So I got board on Friday and decided to create my own URL shortening service. Went looking for a domain and found ocdp.us. A spin off of this domain so I went and did a quick search on Google to make sure I didn’t spell something bad. Google wondered if I meant to type octopus:
So I am aware of the sound of the domain :-).
I went looking for an open source solution that existed and found one that best met my desires. One built by jobping.com. It was ASP.NET MVC based, so figured it was a good way to work on MVC while giving me what I wanted.
The pre-baked solution was missing a few things that I wanted.
1. The ability to have a custom short URL.
2. The ability to see a report of short URL’s. Basically how many clicks have happened on that URL.
So I took the jobping.com solution and made my own.
You can see my solution in action two ways.
1. Click ocdp.us/a to basically come back to this page. This was an auto generated url.
2. Click ocdp.us/lwlfb to go to Loving With Luggage’s site on Facebook. This is a custom URL.
At some point in the future I’ll share the code to my site, but need to make sure the unit test are written just for code completeness.