relink.md

Relink

Full-stack development
An all-in-one link management and analytics platform. Shorten, organize and track every link from one place. Relink turns long URLs into branded short links, measures how they perform, and gives you a single hub to manage where your audience lands.

The problem

Links end up scattered across bios, posts and campaigns, with no memory of which ones actually worked. You share a link and it disappears. No branding, no numbers, no way to change where it points after the fact. Relink puts links under management: branded, measured, and editable from one place.

What it does

Capability
What it means
Branded short links
Clean, on-brand links instead of raw URLs
Click analytics
See how many clicks a link gets and where from
One dashboard
Organize and manage every link in a single hub
Editable targets
Change where a link points without reprinting it

How it works

Creating a link stores a short code that maps to a destination. When someone clicks, a fast redirect service sends them on their way and records the event, and the dashboard rolls those events up into the numbers you actually look at. The redirect is the hot path, so it has to be quick, because every visitor feels that latency.

Highlights

  • Branded short links with click tracking
  • A single dashboard to organize links across platforms
  • Insights into what's working and where traffic comes from

Stack

Next.js Next.js · TypeScript TypeScript · Prisma Prisma · PostgreSQL PostgreSQL

Why this stack

Choice
Why
Instead of
Next.js
Handles both the dashboard and the fast redirect route
a separate app and redirect service to run
Prisma / PostgreSQL
Links and click events model cleanly as relational data
a store that makes aggregation awkward
TypeScript
End-to-end types across dashboard, API and analytics
drift between how the client and server see a link

Honestly this one wasn't hard. Relink's whole principle is staying as simple as possible while being as powerful as the big brands.