Thanks Pierre for your insightful & open response.
I was considering building a business-class url shortener this week (mostly to learn Metal which comes with Rails 2.3 & Sinatra) and what I had in mind was something very similar to cligs. I was thinking of monetizing it exactly the same way with analytics. Looks like you guys have done a fantastic job with it. Congrats on some solid execution!
Thanks :) There is a lot more coming with Cligs soon that will enable me to roll out services to compete more aggressively or respond faster. As I said, it's a competitive market!
But the existence of Cligs or the many other great (and some not so good) alternatives is no reason that you shouldn't create your own. It's a matter of what you want from the project and how it fits with your business/life/CV strategy.
I was considering building a business-class url shortener this week (mostly to learn Metal which comes with Rails 2.3 & Sinatra) and what I had in mind was something very similar to cligs. I was thinking of monetizing it exactly the same way with analytics. Looks like you guys have done a fantastic job with it. Congrats on some solid execution!