How I Built a Deep Linking Service That Resolves in Under 10ms (and Why You Might Need One)

How I Built a Deep Linking Service for Mobile Apps Using Cloudflare Workers If you've ever built a mobile app, you know the pain of deep linking. You share a link, the user taps it, and you want them to land on the right screen inside your app -- not the home screen, not the app store listing, the exact content they were looking for. Simple in theory. A nightmare in practice. The State of Deep Linking in 2026 Firebase Dynamic Links was the go-to free option for years. Then Google shut it down. Overnight, thousands of apps needed a replacement. Branch.io is the market leader, but their pricing starts well into the hundreds per month. For an indie developer or early-stage startup, that's a hard sell for what is essentially a redirect service with some fingerprinting logic. I'm Stefan, an indie developer from Germany, and I decided to build something better. LinkHopp is a deep linking platform that's fast, affordable, and developer-friendly. Here's how it works under the hood. The Archite