Flyn - Showcase Project

Flyn turns a long URL into a short branded link you control, then tells you the truth about what happened to it. Why I built it Every shortener I tried counted link previews, security scanners and crawlers as clicks. Share a link in Slack and the unfurl bot fetches it before a single human sees it, and that lands in the same number you report to a client. Flyn classifies traffic at redirect time and keeps bots in their own counter, next to the human one. Nothing is silently added, nothing is silently discarded. AI assistant referrals like ChatGPT and Perplexity get their own channel instead of being dumped into Direct, which is where most analytics put them. Classification runs after the redirect is already served, so the visitor pays no latency for it. What it does Custom domains, so links carry your brand rather than mine QR codes, static and dynamic, with logo and brand colours Editable destinations, so a printed QR or a bio link never goes dead Routing by country and device, plus deep links that survive Instagram and Facebook in-app browsers Password protection, expiry dates, click limits with a fallback URL Conversion tracking and retargeting pixels Destination safety in layers: category blocklists, Google Safe Browsing, redirect-chain resolution and page-content classification For developers REST API, webhooks, a Zapier app, a Chrome extension, and an MCP server at flyn.to/mcp so AI assistants can create and analyse links directly. Free plan is permanent, 25 new links a month, no card. Pro is $12/month, or $9/month billed annually.