This is a preliminary shortlink engine, which enables authenticated users to create and renew shortlinks, and enables all users to use shortlinks.
The basic premise of this is along the lines of, "I've got a bunch of users who would want to have nice, customized short links they can share with people, but I don't want to give up all the good links." In service of that idea, this project aims to enable users to request whatever link they'd like on its subdomain (except /admin*), with the caveat that a link has an expiration and must always be tied to its requester. Much like a domain, a link expiring makes it immediately available to new users.
For quick-and-easy use, I also intend to include the ability to have a unique shortlink generated for you, much like original shortlink functionality.
This program is likely to end up with several sibling repositories of lower level, moving from python w/flask to pure python to C++ cgi to C++ server, maybe getting to a point of pure C server, if I get bored enough