Announcing development of Pckd v2 🍾!!

[Just-Moh-it]

Pckd has been one of my first real web-development projects. Something that started from the need to have a reasonably-good URL shortener, that's easy to set up, is fast, isn't bloated, and is free-forever, gave rise to Pckd in its initial days. I have always wanted to add new features, and eliminate reliance on other software that does the same thing.

At the time of creating, the Pckd that exists at the time of writing (or v1), I had very limited knowledge about UI/UX and questionable Software development skills. Thus, Pckd was barely able to achieve what it was planned to. New features are very hard to add to Pckd, since the tech stack was chosen while keeping speedy-development in mind, not considering the needs that may arise in the future.

After getting a lot of feature-requests, and trying to implement them, it has proven to be very difficult to modify the code, without making things break.

As a result, I'm announcing version-2 of Pckd. V2 would be filled with cool features (ofcourse), would be less buggy (let's hope) and more reliable. Planned to be a direct competitor to popular services like Bit-ly, and created with reliability in mind, using TypeScript, NextJS, Sass, etc. Most of the features include a dark/light mode, admin panel with user management, custom subdomain support for new users, emojis and special characters, bio-in-link feature to make links appear on the subdomain homepage, more advanced analytics, etc. (view the complete list here)

I'm also planning on providing this version of Pckd as a hosted instance, with premium plans to help fund this project. Let me know your thought and feature requests for version-2 by commenting down. ✋

Development will begin shortly 🤗