The 302 is commodity; staying current with Meta's and Google's conversion endpoints, identifier formats, and consent rules — which change continuously — is not. Agencies pay a second reason: TLS on a client's branded domain is a different problem from pointing your own DNS at a worker.
REPLACEMENT BRIEF
analytics
Can AI replace LnkFlow?
EDITORIAL ANSWERKINDACurated prompt
The redirect is genuinely one sitting — a slug, a 302, a click log, UTM injection, on Workers and KV. The product is the loop back out to the ad platforms: since ATT the browser pixel misses a large share of purchases, so Meta and Google bid on server-side conversion events. Closing that loop means persisting click ids at redirect time, carrying them to a sale days later on another device, posting a Purchase that deduplicates against the pixel, and reversing it on refund — every step failing silently while the dashboard still shows clicks.
Reviewed · DeepFeather editorial
known limits Purchase events delivered back to Meta CAPI with stable event_id deduplication against the browser pixel; Google offline conversion import keyed on gclid, gbraid, or wbraid
Resolve a slug to a destination at the edge, log the click, inject UTMs, pass ad click ids through untouched, and 302.
Build the personal version →AT A GLANCE
- price
- $10/mo
- listed annual price
- $120/yr
- replaceable scope
- Resolve a slug to a destination at the edge, log the click, inject UTMs, pass ad click ids through untouched, and 302.
- build time
- one sitting
Build promptreviewed prompt · not run
the prompt
Curated promptBuild me a branded link shortener with click tracking to replace LnkFlow. Requirements:
- Cloudflare Workers via wrangler: KV for the slug lookup, D1 for the click
log. Free tier, nothing to babysit.
- A worker on lnk.mydomain.com/{slug} reads KV, writes the click to D1 inside
ctx.waitUntil so the redirect never waits, then 302s with X-Robots-Tag:
noindex and Cache-Control: no-store.
- Inject UTM params at redirect time from the link's KV record, and pass
incoming fbclid, gclid, gbraid, wbraid, and msclkid through to the
destination untouched.
- Log per click: slug, timestamp, country from request.cf, user-agent,
referer, and those ad click ids. Skip bot user-agents from a pattern list
in one file.
- An /admin page behind one password (wrangler secret) to create links and
show clicks per link per day as a plain table.
- Secrets via wrangler secret, never in wrangler.toml. No accounts, no
third-party analytics, no telemetry.
- Out of scope: posting Purchase events back to Meta CAPI or Google offline
conversion import · stable event_id for pixel dedup, fbc as
fb.1.{timestamp_ms}.{fbclid}, and refund reversal. A silently wrong
conversion feed is worse than none.
- Out of scope: TLS for domains I do not own. My own subdomain is one DNS
record · a client's domain means Cloudflare for SaaS and DCV renewals.
- README: wrangler setup, the KV namespace and D1 database, the DNS record,
and adding the first link.Copy or open in an agent
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what AI can build
Resolve a slug to a destination at the edge, log the click, inject UTMs, pass ad click ids through untouched, and 302.
The prompt was editor-reviewed; no completed build is recorded.
The honest tradeoff
why people still pay
what you lose
xPurchase events delivered back to Meta CAPI with stable event_id deduplication against the browser pixel
xGoogle offline conversion import keyed on gclid, gbraid, or wbraid
xclick to lead to sale attribution that survives a multi-day gap, with refund reversal
xTLS on a customer's branded domain (Cloudflare for SaaS and 90-day DCV renewals, not one DNS record)
xper-creator performance and commission reporting
Start with existing software
prior art · use these instead of building, if you'd rather
EVIDENCE LEDGER
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evidence level
Curated promptThe prompt was editor-reviewed; no completed build is recorded.
Starter · monthly
known limits · Purchase events delivered back to Meta CAPI with stable event_id deduplication against the browser pixel; Google offline conversion import keyed on gclid, gbraid, or wbraid
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Can AI replace LnkFlow?
Possibly for a narrower core workflow. Expected gaps include: Purchase events delivered back to Meta CAPI with stable event_id deduplication against the browser pixel, Google offline conversion import keyed on gclid, gbraid, or wbraid. This is an editorial catalog judgment, not a verified build; validate any result against your own acceptance criteria.
How much does LnkFlow cost?
LnkFlow is listed at about $10/month (Starter, checked 2026-07-30), or $120 per year. This is a pricing reference, not evidence of a completed replacement or realized savings.
What do I lose by replacing LnkFlow?
Honestly: Purchase events delivered back to Meta CAPI with stable event_id deduplication against the browser pixel; Google offline conversion import keyed on gclid, gbraid, or wbraid; click to lead to sale attribution that survives a multi-day gap, with refund reversal; TLS on a customer's branded domain (Cloudflare for SaaS and 90-day DCV renewals, not one DNS record); per-creator performance and commission reporting. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to LnkFlow?
Yes — Dub (The most complete open-source link platform · analytics, custom domains, and a conversion API. Self-hostable.), Shlink (Self-hosted URL shortener with a REST API, click stats, and QR codes.), YOURLS (The long-running PHP shortener · drop it on any LAMP host and it works.). Using prior art is also a valid exit; the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.