I recently registered the domain gar.zone
with the intent of turning it into my own personal url shortener. Thanks to this helpful blog post by Nuno Job I found a good launching off point called tiny. I patched it up, fixed a bug, and am now using it to power my own url shortener. Yay. It doesn't do analytics or anything fancy like that but it works for me! Source is here
You can see it in action here