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Ask HN: Faster alternatives to Tinyurl?
I've been playing around with the TinyURL api:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/27/tinyurlHasAnApi.html
It works like a charm, but is sloooooow -- almost 0.5 seconds per request.
Does anyone have suggestions on faster alternatives?
- nreece 18y agoYou can also try: http://is.gd http://is.gd / http://is.gd/api_info.php http://is.gd/api_info.php http://bit.ly http://bit.ly / http://bit.ly/app/developers http://bit.ly/app/developers
- amichail 18y agoAnyone jealous of tinyurl.com? So little effort to build but with very high traffic now. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tinyurl.com+techcrunch.com/?metric=uv http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tinyurl.com+techcrunch.com/...
- epall 18y agoDo they make any revenue off of all that traffic?
- timf 18y agoWrite your own! :-)
- andrewhyde 18y agois.gd would be my choice
- sanj 18y agoI appreciate all of the leads, but does anyone have performance numbers?