## Shorten ## Overview Shorten is a clean and a free web service that lets users summarize webpages by simply prepending that URL with `sh10.in/` ## Functionalities ### Web crawler & summarizer Extract content from given URL and turn it into clean, structured markdown summary of 150-200 words via Groq AI. ### Text-to-speech Generates text-to-speech audio which users can listen to using AWS Polly over WebSockets with word-level sync and on-page highlighting. ### Apple Shortcut Provides users an apple shortcut that gives functionality to summarize. ### Storage & object store PostgreSQL for metadata and analytics, MinIO for object storage. ### Observability Latency and traffic monitoring with PostgreSQL and Google Analytics. ## Tech Stack

Layer	Technology	Role
Frontend	Next.js (React)	Catch-all routing, UI rendering, and session management
Backend	Go	High-concurrency processing, WebSocket handling, and API integration
AI/LLM	Groq	Rapid text summarization using Large Language Models
Speech	AWS Polly	Generating high-quality audio and speech-mark data for synchronization
Storage	MinIO / S3	Object storage for cleaned text, summaries, and audio files
Database	PostgreSQL	Metadata storage for requests, feedback, and analytics
Proxy	Caddy	TLS termination and routing for the frontend and backend services

## Architecture ![arch](/images/Components.svg)