Show HN: Yurl.ai – a tiny F# URL shortener that invents its own slugs

5 points by reverseblade2 7 months ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

Hi HN,

I hacked together Yurl.ai last week—a bare-bones URL shortener in F# / .NET 9 using a simple CQRS + event-sourcing setup.

The gimmick: for each new link, it grabs the page text and asks a small language model to suggest a short, readable slug (4–8 chars). I’m curious whether these model-made names beat the usual random hashes.

Tech bits:

Actors as aggregates

SQLite for both event store and read model

Source (MIT): https://github.com/OnurGumus/YURL Live demo: https://yurl.ai (free tier—please be gentle)

Happy to hear what you think.

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