ArnoldShortenator is a URL shortener meant for companies.
Maps a short address, using a "slug", to any external URL. For example, you might have a company Predator, Inc.
whose address is http://www.predatorinc.com. Your staff has the line search predatorinc.com in all of their
/etc/resolv.conf files (or whatever it is on Windows).
You bring up a URL shortener on the address https://choppa.predatorinc.com. People can access "choppa" in their browser. Then, you allow people to map a "slug", which is the first part of the path, to any address. So, entering "choppa/jobs" might bring you to "https://www.predatorinc.com/jobs".
This is extremely useful for companies. For example, many companies use Google Docs. A link to a set of slides might be "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_JNKQp26Vkd4PmloFxfyXdPl4jDW9V1NHtskSWtdGiI/edit". Imagine this is your company holidays. You can map this to "choppa/holidays" and make it much easier to remember.
Other examples include
- Company forms, like "choppa/401k"
- Personal home pages, like "choppa/drudder" mapping to my Confluence page
- PRDs, like "choppa/skynet-proposal"
It's a Spring Boot app. Clone it, configure your mysql server in src/main/resources/application.properties, and run
mvn spring-boot:run. Then, hit "http://localhost:8080"
I have a public demo up and running