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Last July, we took a look<\/a> at Pinboard<\/a>, a no-frills bookmarking service that focuses on, you know, bookmarking<\/em>. Unlike Yahoo’s popular delicious<\/a>, which is weighed down by feature bloat, Pinboard looks to keep things simple, fast, and elegant. Last week, Pinboard’s creator Maciej Ceglowski posted<\/a> a recap of the site’s growth over the last six months, giving some honest insight into the progress of a small-but-growing startup.<\/p>\nPerhaps the biggest news is that Pinboard is now Ceglowski’s full-time job. The former Yahoo Brickhouse developer started the site as a side project, but since the rollout of a new premium archiving feature<\/a> (which runs $25 a year), he can apparently make enough from Pinboard to make a living. \u00a0He’s also got help from his friend Peter Gadjokov, who also happens to be one of delicious’s founders.<\/p>\n Ceglowski takes some jabs at delicious, which has made quite a few frustrating decisions since its acquisition by Yahoo:<\/p>\n There have been two big surprises in the past six months. The first was discovering that a minimalist paid bookmarking site can effectively compete against delicious, a free service that has all the resources of Yahoo at its disposal, a five year headstart, and until the recent layoffs employed some thirty people. Yahoo management single-handedly created our market with a series of terrible product decisions, and has continued to push the yoke forward and keep the nose pointed straight at the ground. As happy as I am to see Pinboard succeed, I wish it weren’t due to so much squandered effort by people I like and respect on the delicious development team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ceglowski writes that Pinboard has grown to 1,200 active users, who have shared nearly 2 million bookmarks. The site has also added a number of features, including a mobile version, an API, integration with Twitter and Instapaper, and more. He notes that there’s “even a version of the site for the five Pinboard users who prefer to browse their bookmarks in Spanish.”<\/p>\n Ceglowski also writes that the site’s innovative signup fee<\/a> has helped keep spammers at bay, which can be a serious problem with link sharing and bookmarking sites. Since launching last summer, Pinboard has charged new users a small fee that increases by a tenth of a cent with each new user (it’s currently up to $5.79).<\/p>\n If you’re interested in the more technical side of Pinboard, Ceglowski has written details on the site’s technical underpinnings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Crunch Network<\/em><\/strong>: CrunchBase<\/a> <\/em>the free database of technology companies, people, and investors<\/p>\n\n