TinyURL Clone Link Shortener (Replit + AdSense)

01The Full Story: Cloning a $200K/Month Tool in 15 Minutes

Creator Mikey says he can't code at all, and the video's narrative is simple: he takes TinyURL as his target — a tool that turns long URLs into short ones, with an interface that's one input box and virtually no design, yet 40 million people use it every month and it pulls in over $200K a month from Google ads running in the background. His argument: if the thing is this simple, then with Replit — an AI coding tool — he can direct it in plain English, line by line, and build an identical version in 15 minutes, then hook up Google AdSense for ad revenue and Stripe for premium memberships, and passive income is established. The whole demo runs like this: inside Replit he uses natural-language prompts to stack features one at a time — basic short-link generation first, then custom aliases, QR codes, a user dashboard with click stats, and bulk shortening. When he hits a bug, he pastes the error back and lets the AI fix it. Once done, he deploys live with Replit's one-click deploy, verifies the domain in the AdSense back office, submits for manual review, and once approved the ads start showing. But note carefully: that $200K/mo is the creator relaying a number about his benchmark, TinyURL, with no first-hand proof of any kind. The creator's own clone site shows no revenue data whatsoever, and the video explicitly disclaims any guarantee of results. So this is a "technical demo," not a "revenue case study."