Shoryurlken
Allows users to input URLs, and spits out a shortened version of the URL, which is a simple redirect from the server running this app.
See it in action
The app is currently running on Heroku.
How it works
When a user submits a URL for shortening, a random word is fetched from the Wordnik API , and that word is used to generate a shortened version of the user's URL. For example, if a user enters the following URL for shortening:
https://github.com/oksas/url-shortener
then the server will grab a word from Wordnik, save an entry in the database with the user-submitted URL and the fetched word, and give the user a shortened link on the server that uses that word, such as:
http://shoryurlken.herokuapp.com/mogwai