ShortSwitch v1.0.0

ShortSwitch v1.0.0

The first stable public release of ShortSwitch — a lightweight, self-hosted platform for short URLs, interactive Live activities, public Pages, and privacy-aware analytics.

Highlights

Short Links

• Custom and automatically generated slugs
• Password-protected links
• Link expiration and manual enable/disable controls
• QR code generation
• Per-link click and visitor analytics
• Daily, weekly, and monthly trends
• Device, browser, operating system, language, and referrer statistics

ShortSwitch Live

• Open Answer activities
• Word Clouds
• Multiple Choice activities
• Numeric Scale activities
• Anonymous and named participation
• Response limits per participant
• Global ban filter
• Manual moderation queue
• Editable participant names and responses
• Realtime result updates using SSE
• Presentation mode
• Public result preview controls

Pages

• Lightweight public profile and landing pages
• Reusable Heading, Text, Link, Email, Divider, Space, Image, Live Activity, and Double blocks
• Drag-and-drop content ordering
• Live desktop and mobile preview
• Themes and layout customization
• Draft, Active, and Disabled states
• Independent page and block-click analytics

Analytics

• Combined analytics across Links, Live, and Pages
• Activity trends with daily, weekly, and monthly ranges
• Weekday and hour activity heatmap
• Top public slugs and referrers
• Device, browser, operating system, and language breakdowns
• Individual analytics for Links, Live activities, and Pages

Security and deployment

• Server-side cookie sessions
• CSRF protection
• Argon2 password hashing
• Configurable rate limiting
• CSP and CORS protection
• Privacy-aware visitor identification
• SQLite persistence
• Single-container Docker deployment
• Brotli and gzip precompressed frontend assets
• Immutable caching for hashed static assets

Docker

Production image:

docker pull bonsaiborn/shortswitch:latest