Show HN: Shorty – A dead simple URL shortener service (with analytics) (opens in new tab)

https://github.com/shorty/ is a user with no repository from UK. Are you sure that the url is correct?

Correct URL - https://github.com/PadamSethia/shorty

Love the simplicity. What is the "Tag URL"?

Just curious – was there any particular reason to use MySQL directly, instead of eg. SQLAlchemy?