Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service.

Re:Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service. by clear on Friday April 24, 2009 @09:33AM (#577458)

This is simple service that let you un-shorten URLs created using any of the URL shortening services.

I thought it might be useful to create a single place to un-shorten URLs. I know some of you are tired of hearing about another URL service, but it works with all of the shortening websites such as TinyURL, bit.ly, tr.im, even with Hapylink and others.

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Re:Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service. by pyroman on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:54AM (#577564)

Are you saving the urls after someone requests one to be lengthened? It could act as a backup if one of the shorteners went down. Maybe one of the firefox extension developers that expand urls could use your saved urls in that case.

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Re:Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service. by j2d2 on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:03AM (#577497)

What made you decide to solve this problem? Did you encounter issues that this solved?

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Re:Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service. by zavulon on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:12AM (#577510)

Personally, I see value in it.

If I get a shortened URL link from someone, and I'm at work, I would like to go to that site and see what that TinyURL really is before following the link

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Re:Ask HN: Review a simple URL un-shortening service. by wlievens on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:50AM (#577560)

It would work great with a firefox/whatever plugin that would show you this link as a tooltip, avoiding the copypaste grind

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