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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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