hscLink

Generic URL shorteners are built for marketing. Technical teams need something different: redirect rules with expiry dates, A/B traffic splitting, per-destination click breakdowns, and an API for programmatic link creation from CI/CD pipelines.

hscLink is a self-hosted-ready link management platform built for engineering and DevOps use cases. Create a short URL with one API call, attach a TTL, set click-through to different targets by device type or geography, and pull per-link analytics into your dashboards via the metrics endpoint.

The core redirect engine runs in Go against a Redis store — median redirect latency under 2ms. The management UI is a Vue.js SPA with team workspaces, role-based access, and bulk import/export.

We built hscLink to manage internal redirect infrastructure across our own products and client deployments. It now runs as a public SaaS with a self-hosted Docker Compose option for teams with data residency requirements.