An internal link shortener designed for easy installation.

Whiz is a Golang port of Zoom, and thus shares its motivation: to provide a url shortener for internal use at a company, for common urls, Slack topics, links in presentations, and so on. For instance, you might host it in the same domain as your workstations and under the hostname 'whiz'; then if a user adds a shortlink of 'sandwich' to https://cuberule.com/ , another user visiting whiz/sandwich in their browser will be redirected to that Python documentation page.

Additionally, I thought it would be a useful way for me to learn a bit of Go:

1. It's small but not trivial.
2. I completely understand the problem, so I only need to focus on the new language.
3. It does web serving, which is an important evaluation point for my potential uses of go.
4. The "build a static binary and drop it in" model of Go fits well with the philosophy Zoom was designed around.

Whiz is designed for a very specific purpose. It may or may not be what you want.

Whiz:

• Installs with one command
• Runs with one command
• Trusts all users

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