Here’s a story about just how easy it is to make a cool piece of tech whose usefulness outpaces anything you might have imagined when you created it. Twitter engineer Alex Payne describes the way that the minimalist masterpiece downforeveryoneorjustme.com came into being, and why he sold it.
Very refreshing to read a success story motivated by a love for tinkering rather than a dollar. I respect the effort even more when he says he was making ~$300/mo using Google Adwords (in this context, I’m pretty sure he meant Adsense).
Cultivate and trust those little moments of inspiration. More than that though, doesn’t this remind us that some of the best stuff in tech comes from a wacky idea upon which we execute?
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