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Choto was a URL shortener API with subscription plans, Stripe billing and strict usage quotas. It was built to collect money. It collected none, and the server bill kept coming anyway.
So I turned the server off. The code is all still there, and reading it costs neither of us anything.
Hiring? Paying me would also pay for the server. Funny how that works.
Final status report
| What it did | How it's doing |
|---|---|
| Short links | Still short. Now also gone. |
| Click analytics | Visitors today: you. Recorded: nowhere. |
| Stripe billing | Best customer was 4242 4242 4242 4242. Spent freely, paid nothing. |
| Signed webhooks | Retrying with backoff. Next attempt: payday. |
| Celery workers | Sent home without severance. |
| Idempotency | Refresh as often as you like. You get the same result. |
| Monthly cost | $0. Finally, a feature that works. |
The shortener still works, sort of
This version runs in your browser with no server and no database. It shortens your link by deleting half of it. Press again for better results.
No servers were harmed. One was switched off.