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Nice, always wanted to set up one of these for myself, but never found a good example. I'm wondering if you would like to tell us (me), what you used to set it up?

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Here is the start of some code. Wrote the core in 3 hours for a job interview. Python, GAE, Test Cases, UI and all of that. Have fun.

site - http://jjbshort.appspot.com/

source - https://github.com/joeblau/jjbshort

edit: I realize the URL's aren't short... the code just needs a short domain :)

Thanks! And thanks for the others that posted as well of course :)

I'm not OP, but HTTP Headers show:

    X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 3.0.19

So most likely a Ruby app, and probably not Rails as no asset pipeline has been used.

Looks like they're using Sinatra (http://www.sinatrarb.com/) if the above erroring pages are anything to go by (http://fry.io/b2).

It's a really simple sinatra app at the moment. I got the domain a few months ago thinking I would sell it on. But then I decided I wanted to start up a little project with it. :-)

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