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Thanks!

I have ideas about how to monetize it like adding premium features and adding up-sell add-on services.

I subscribe to the launch early and launch fast mentality :)

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A URL pointer service with tracking metrics - smart idea, good version 1. I like that the metrics updated immediately after I clicked a link I'd made. The interesting part to me was that it showed relevant Twitter, delicious, etc traffic - for both the cli.gs link and the long URL. Signup was simple and professional. Ignore the people who are expecting a perfect version - you made it clear up front that you're not finished under the hood and haven't applied polish yet. I see you're going to have charts and graphs eventually; nice. I wonder, will you also pull client IP addresses through ip2geo to show maps of visitor traffic? Lots of possible features to add. Congrats on v1 - keep rolling out the reporting tools and polish. If you do, demand for your premium plan should fall into place.

The country mapping is coming along with a lot of other analysis features.

It's V1 as you say and I wanted to get the ball rolling to get some data into the database so I can start working off that - real data is better than hypothetical data :)

Do those other ones like tinyurl actually bring in money? I'm not very knowledgeable about that 'market'. In any case, getting it out there is a good idea, it looks like it's pretty nice 'as is'.

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