The business of bookmarking. Maciej Ceglowski covers the basics of Pinboard’s business. Fascinating look at what goes in to making Pinboard run effectively and profitably. (via Marco Arment)
Tag: Pinboard
Don’t Be A Free User
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
maciej – Don’t Be A Free User.
The Costs of Bookmarking. Cool data released by Maciej from Pinboard about how much it costs to keep the bookmarking service running. It’s really awesome to see information like this made public.
A personal archive
This was a lot of excitement for one year. Since the whole point of Pinboard is to be around for the long haul, I’m hoping for much less of it in the year to come. A personal archive works a little bit like a bank – you want to be able to use it and forget about it, rather than see it pop up in the evening news.
maciej – Two years of Pinboard.
Remembrance of Links Past. Maciej, co-founder of Pinboard, ran some sample data to see how often links from the past become dead. While it was a small sample size, it shows you could be losing a quarter of your links every seven years.
Anatomy of a Crushing. Maciej Ceglowski, founder of Pinboard, writes about what it was like after the leak of Delicious’ imminent death. Includes some jaw dropping graphs and loads of details.