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    <h2>What?</h2>

    <p>🐀 is a service that convert whatever URI into a shorten URL.</p>
    <p>It's <i>similar</i> to others services as <a href="https://bitly.com/">bitly</a> or <a href="https://goo.gl/">goo.gl</a>, but we consider 🐀 special because:</p>

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      <li>The <i>killer feature</i> is make the URL as <b>small as possible</b>. Anything else is secondary.</li>
      <li>You can convert into shorten URL whatever <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier">URI</a>. For example, try with a Bittorrent link!.</li>
      <li>Is not possible create different URLs for same URI's. Remember the first point!.</li>
      <li>Each URL can be represented into a emoji version to be more social friendly.</li>
      <li>Public stats associate with each URL. Try to add <code>+</code> at the end of the URL!.</li>
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    <h2>Who?</h2>

    <p>🐀 is a project created by <a href="https://twitter.com/Kikobeats">Kiko Beats</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/wa7son">Thomas Watson</a>.</p>
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    <h2>How?</h2>

    <p>The project is Open source and you can read the code in the <a href="https://github.com/finkhq">Fink repository on GitHub.</a></p>

    <p>Under the hood we use a fast key/value database, a way to create unique identifiers and an URI validator.</p>

    <p>Simply but effective!.</p>
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    <h2>Why?</h2>

    <p>Because yes. Because <i>why not</i>.</p>
    <p>The history behind this project turn around playing with the idea of create a emoji representation <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme">magnet uris</a>:</p>

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/wa7son">@wa7son</a> I&#39;m seeing that bittorrent magnet uri is based in a base32... but in emojis would be works?</p>&mdash; Kiko Beats (@Kikobeats) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kikobeats/status/686849901137911808">January 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
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