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Leland: T.ly URL shortener extension had 60,000 users in 2019

Tim Leland · His Chrome Extension Just Got $60k Offer, He Said No, Now 400k Users, $40k ARR · Apr 6, 2022 · at 12:52

Tim Leland discusses the historical growth curve of his T.ly URL shortener extension leading up to 400,000 users.

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“Back in 2019, it had 60,000 users. So that's kind of the growth of the past three years or so.”

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The claim, plainly

Tim Leland's URL shortener Chrome extension had 60,000 users in 2019.

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Assessment

The 60,000 user figure for 2019 originates entirely from retroactive statements made by then-developer Tim Leland during the April 2022 Top Founders podcast interview and subsequent GetLatka summaries. Independent primary records from 2019 (such as archived Chrome Web Store listings or public developer telemetry) verifying the exact user base during that calendar year are absent from indexed third-party repositories. Under the evaluation rules, sources that merely repeat the claim itself do not corroborate it; absent independent contemporaneous records, the claim cannot yet be definitively confirmed or refuted.

Tim Leland stated in an April 2022 interview on Nathan Latka's podcast that his URL shortener extension had 60,000 users in 2019.
Subsequent growth is documented (reaching over 350,000 users by October 2021 and 400,000 by April 2022), but no independent archived Chrome Web Store snapshots or developer metrics from 2019 are available in public repositories to corroborate the specific 2019 figure.

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[1] medium.com [2] adalo.com [3] indiehackers.com [4] getlatka.com [5] timleland.com [6] indiebites.com [7] indiebites.com [8] chrome-stats.com

"oodfdmglhbbkkcngodjjagblikmoegpa" "chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/url-shortener/" Tim Leland URL shortener Chrome extension 2019 users Tim Leland URL Shortener chrome web store web archive 2019

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⏳ prediction date: 2019-12-31; checked again automatically on the next resolution wave

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Disclosure

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