Pckd

The ⚡️ analytics-intensive, self-hostable link-shortener with a beautiful UI | AKA free bit.ly alternative 🚀

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Pckd

🔗 Pckd

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⛔️🛑 This version of the project is not currently being maintained

We’re focusing our efforts towards creating Pckd V2, since further development/improvements on V1 won’t be sustainable. Therefore, we can’t guarantee solutions to all problems at the time. Please check back in a few months for Pckd V2. Until then, try out other awesome URL shorteners like dub, etc.

Pckd is a free-to-use URL Shortener, that can be easily self-hosted with awesome features like:

🔗 Shorten URLs (or pckds) with, or without an account
🖌️ Customize back-halfs on every pckd
🔌 Deploy to custom URL and Infrastructure
🧤 Customize settings like link back-halfs, link targets, tracking info, etc.
🕵️‍♂️ Track each click on a pckd, and retrieve
- 🌐 IP address (Spoof-resistant)
- 🕸️ ISP Name
- 🗺️ IP-Location
- 💻 Device details like OS Version and Device Model
- 🪟 Browser Name and including version
💯 Custom Loading/Redirecting Screen (self-hosted only)
🏃‍♂️ Quick Redirections in 150ms!
🔐 Fast, Reliable and Secure
👮 Secure Secret Storage and handling using 💻 environment variables
✨ Built on a modern tech stack
💿 Compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and many
more

This project was created to be the most powerful URL shortener for the public, so no wonder it’s so feature-rich

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📸 Screenshots

Here is a sneak peek of the application and it’s visuals 😍:

Dashboard Page
Login	Signup
Account Page	Reset Password
Home Page

Want to create your own iteration? View the designs on
Figma

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🎗 Supporters

Pckd is made possible by support from some awesome folks including:

😇 One-off Backers

_Geeked

_{Ben Notix}

_{Rizwan Ahmed}

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🤔 Why does Pckd exist?

After looking at all the aka.ms links out there which flood windows, along with the numerous time saving been prompted
to buy premium plans from bit.ly while shortening my URLs, the decision of having a reliable, personal URL shortener
hosted on a custom domain for free caught wind.

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🧮 Comparison

Pckd stacks up well against major URL Shorteners

Comparison Table including other free and paid
shorteners

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😲 Built With (Tech Stack)

The following technologies were involved in the making of this project.

⚛️ React JS - Frontend
🚀 Apollo GraphQL Server v3 - Server API
🧩 GraphQL Template By Mohit - Boilerplate for Apollo
💿 Prisma - ORM
😨 Any relational or non-relational database that Prisma
supports
🗺️ Redux w/ Redux Toolkit - State management
🌐 IP Registry - Free Geolocation lookups

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🤯 Quick Start Guide

To get started with having your own instance of Pckd, follow the steps described in the following section

🚦 Get an API Key first

Pckd uses IP Registry for Geo-location look-ups to track hits (free for 100,000 lookups)

Obtain an API key from the ipregistry.co website

💾 Installation

Pckd supports the following installations

🛠 Build from source code
📦 [Soon] Deploy the release
🐳 [Unstable] Docker-Compose Installation
🐋 [Soon] Docker-Hub Pre-built Image

Read all installation docs here

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🛣 Roadmap

This project is far from perfect, and we’ll reach there one day, or at least get close.

Link-in-bio feature (Discussion #49)
Admin Panel Support (Discussion #43)
Multiple Subdomain Support (Discussion #14)
Email Notifications for hits if enabled (Discussion #18)
Custom OG Preview for social-sharing (Discussion #39)
One-Click Deploys (Discussion #44)
Password-protected links (Discussion #41)

Have a look at the 🛣 Roadmap for a full list of proposed features and
enhancements.

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📐 Architecture

Here’s a diagram explaining exactly how everything fits into place

Here's how everything fits into the scene

🌈 Contributing

Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any
contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also
simply open an issue with the tag “enhancement”.
Don’t forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!