About

Trimly shortens links and tells you what happened to them — where the clicks came from, on what, and through which campaign. It also does the parts that usually cost extra: your own domains, QR codes, password-protected and expiring links, an API, and webhooks.

The free plan is not a trial. It has real limits rather than a countdown, and no card is asked for.

One person: Tim Manje. Not a company, not a team, and there is no venture funding behind it. Mail sent to kontakt@zerogov.lol is read by the person who wrote the code.

That cuts both ways, and it is worth being straight about which. Bugs get fixed by whoever caused them, usually quickly. But there is no on-call rotation, no cover during a holiday, and no guarantee the service outlives its author's interest in it.

A shortened link is a dependency. Every one you print, post or send stops working if the service does — that is true of every shortener, and it is worth weighing before you put one on something you cannot reissue.

Two things reduce that risk here. Connect your own domain and the links belong to you: if you ever need to move, you re-point the DNS and they keep resolving. And your links and click history export in full, whenever you like, without asking.

If the service were ever to shut down, the terms commit to 90 days' notice and an export.

The redirect engine is the part that has to be dependable, so it is kept simple and runs on more than one machine in Frankfurt, with the database in the same region. Clicks are counted without storing anyone's IP address — the privacy policy explains how, and the security page sets out what is protected and what is not.

Current state of the service is on the status page, checked live rather than reported from memory.