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Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look into fixing the design given your comments and the comments elswhere, perhaps using crowdspring as suggested. Not

Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look into fixing the design given your comments and the comments elswhere, perhaps using crowdspring as suggested. Not validating is not bad. It's not essential either. Take google.com for example. And the delicious tags are not "stolen" but are the delicious.com badge. Closing accounts: didn't think of that, but easy enough to add. Editing and deleting cligs is coming. Skip to content link is for mobile users. A proper mobile-optimized layout is coming that will be automatically used if a mobile UA is detected and this is a temporary measure. As a mobile net user, I find such links very helpful. But I think you're missing something important here. You say "Right now your solution is not only replicating them on some level, but it does so in an inferior way." Tinyurl and is.gd do not offer anywhere near the service Cligs does in terms of analytics. I don't want to belittle them but they don't have top contend with user accounts and layout out a ton of data in a sensible way. So the current design of Cligs doesn't work but that's because it needs to do a lot more. Thanks again.

Brushfire 18y ago
OK. So your point of differentiation is Analytics. Good. Would it be possible to still make the creation of new 'Cligs' more streamlined, with the option to sign up later to retrieve/view stats? Just a thought. API still important, if not critical, in my eyes. If you havent already, I would do a benchmark of Google Analytics and other free analytics companies and try to see what are the important metrics. "Hits" doesnt really cut it if your differentiation is analytics. Anywho, Good luck. I think if you clean up the design some, that itself will make the service a lot more attractive/usable and you will see increased activity. Once you get some traction you'll be able to really drive home the rest.
unalone 18y ago
There IS a start-up that has full analytics support, though. I forget which it was, but it measured hits and visits and the like, and it was very easy to use.
zitterbewegung 18y ago
For some reason the site is saying that its blocking me due to a "hacking attempt". I don't understand why it is doing this to me I wasn't trying to hack it or anything.
colinplamondon 18y ago
Yeah, so your message is URL Shortener + Analytics. Two nice rounded image headers, one for each, large ENTER URL HERE box, prompt for registration on entering the URL. What's so complicated? this is going to sound harsh, but looking at your site, I couldn't care less. I go to a lot of sites, regularly share URLs with people, I'm your target audience, and I'm not interested. It's overwought. It's not that your frontpage needs to do a lot, it's that the page sucks. If I visit, I want to submit a URL and then get analytics on the flipside. Everything that isn't related to that task is extraneous. Why not just nuke the entire page, put in a bigass textarea for copying in a url, a submit button, and two small rounded image boxes describing, respectively, URL Shortening and Analytics? You'd have a site that's approximately 10 trillion and a half times better. It's not that anyone's missing something, it's that your site fails to get across why your site is useful.
- moliver73 18y ago
  http://rapidshare.com/files/208150867/Segundo.avi http://rapidshare.com/files/208150867/Segundo.avi
  - moliver73 18y ago
    werew
drawkbox 18y ago
All the design you need in a site like this: http://is.gd/ http://is.gd/ Then one button for analytics.

Brushfire 18y ago

OK. So your point of differentiation is Analytics. Good. Would it be possible to still make the creation of new 'Cligs' more streamlined, with the option to sign up later to retrieve/view stats? Just a thought. API still important, if not critical, in my eyes. If you havent already, I would do a benchmark of Google Analytics and other free analytics companies and try to see what are the important metrics. "Hits" doesnt really cut it if your differentiation is analytics. Anywho, Good luck. I think if you clean up the design some, that itself will make the service a lot more attractive/usable and you will see increased activity. Once you get some traction you'll be able to really drive home the rest.

unalone 18y ago

There IS a start-up that has full analytics support, though. I forget which it was, but it measured hits and visits and the like, and it was very easy to use.

zitterbewegung 18y ago

For some reason the site is saying that its blocking me due to a "hacking attempt". I don't understand why it is doing this to me I wasn't trying to hack it or anything.

colinplamondon 18y ago

Yeah, so your message is URL Shortener + Analytics. Two nice rounded image headers, one for each, large ENTER URL HERE box, prompt for registration on entering the URL. What's so complicated? this is going to sound harsh, but looking at your site, I couldn't care less. I go to a lot of sites, regularly share URLs with people, I'm your target audience, and I'm not interested. It's overwought. It's not that your frontpage needs to do a lot, it's that the page sucks. If I visit, I want to submit a URL and then get analytics on the flipside. Everything that isn't related to that task is extraneous. Why not just nuke the entire page, put in a bigass textarea for copying in a url, a submit button, and two small rounded image boxes describing, respectively, URL Shortening and Analytics? You'd have a site that's approximately 10 trillion and a half times better. It's not that anyone's missing something, it's that your site fails to get across why your site is useful.

moliver73 18y ago
http://rapidshare.com/files/208150867/Segundo.avi http://rapidshare.com/files/208150867/Segundo.avi
- moliver73 18y ago
  werew

drawkbox 18y ago

All the design you need in a site like this: http://is.gd/ http://is.gd/ Then one button for analytics.