linkat: a-meow-zingly short urls

linkat is a link shortener service that shows a cat gif for 5 seconds before redirecting the user to the final url. It's inspired by services like ad.fly, but with cats instead of ads.

linkat_api

linkat_api is the back-end for linkat. It runs on Elixir/Phoenix. The production url for this api is https://api.linkat.fun .

Running linkat_api for the first time

First steps

For production and development you will need to set up an env varibale with Google reCaptcha secret key. The name of the env variable should be RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY_LINKAT

For development

The usual way of running phoenix apps. You need postgresql installed with the default user "postgres", "postgres" (you can change username and password of the database in config/dev.exs)

mix deps.get
mix ecto.create
mix ecto.migrate
mix phx.server

For production

Before running the application, you need the env variables bellow:

• SECRET_KEY_BASE: The phoenix secret_key_base config. You can generate a secure key using phx.gen.secret
• DATABASE_URL: Postgres database URL