If anyone is at all interested: Almost all the traffic from HN skips the ads via the "Click to close and continue" link at the top right - while the majority of Twitter users let the ad run for a full 12 seconds.
Seeing that you require an email address, the first thing I looked for was your privacy policy. Unfortunately, the lightbox screen doesn't scroll in my browser (Opera 10.10) so I couldn't skim through all of it.
This isn't a startup.<p>I don't think you'll find many people willing to annoy their followers/friends with advertisements, even in exchange for some pocket change.
I run Chrome with an ad blocker - the test link gave me a blank screen with a non-obvious loading meter in the top left (which said click to cancel on hover).<p>Seeing as a large number of people use ad blockers that's not a great UI experience - quite a few people could even click back/close because they think it is the page their visiting loading.
Am I the only person that really hoped "unbig.me" was a weight-loss related app? And the banner at the top reads "Use unbig.me to to shorten your link and earn $". Obviously you should remove the "to to" and overall that just feels like someone talking in txt to me, which I hate.
Can anyone explain me the value of URL shorteners? I never understood this "cool" trend... OK, they're useful for SMS (that's why it's so popular on Twitter), but what else ?