How I Manage Links Across 5 SaaS Products Without Paying for Bitly

Link management sounds simple until you're running multiple products and each one has different tracking needs, different domains, and different audiences. I tried Bitly for a while. It works, but the pricing doesn't make sense for indie developers and small teams. Their custom domain feature alone costs $35/month. Multiply that by 5 products and you're looking at $175/month just for link shortening. The Problem Here's what I needed: Custom domains for each product (go.product1.com, links.product2.com, etc.) Click analytics with geographic data and referrer tracking API access to automate link creation from my CI/CD pipeline Free or cheap — I'm bootstrapped What I Tried TinyURL Free, no analytics. Dead end for anything serious. Short.io Good analytics but +/month for multiple domains. Same pricing problem as Bitly. Rebrandly Nice UI, but again — custom domains cost money. \/month for branded links. Dub.co This is what I actually use now. It's open source , which immediately caught my a