Smarter Short URLs

As an avid user of tinyurl.com for a long time, I realized how cumbersome the process had gotten. If I wanted to make it easy, I would have to install some sort of extension – most of which did not work on the myriad browsers I use (on any given day, I will use Opera, IE, and Firefox. On a bad day, Ill use Safari too)

So, I wrote t1ny.us

Let’s say you visit http://www.reddit.com and you want a short url

Just type http://t1ny.us/ in front of http://www.reddit.com (http://t1ny.us/http://www.reddit.com) and press enter.

You will automatically get a short URL.

If you want to do it programatically on a large scale, just use the similarly ridiculously simple REST API — http://t1ny.us/l.php?long=[[your long url]]

Same situation. Hopefully you guys find this as helpful and easy as I did.

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