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I created searchtempest.com as a hobby project in 2006, starting with zero web knowledge, although a bit of programming experience from electrical engineering.
by tempestn 10y ago
I created searchtempest.com as a hobby project in 2006, starting with zero web knowledge, although a bit of programming experience from electrical engineering. Within about a year and a half it was earning enough to pay my (very modest) rent. By 2009 I quit my day job to focus on it full time. Added autotempest.com around the same time and now have several employees working on the two. (The first hired around 2010 iirc.)
- RhodesianHunter 10y agoDid all of the "No affiliation with craigslist." warnings come after some legal action?
- tempestn 10y agoNo, craigslist hasn't taken any legal action against us, perhaps because we go to significant effort through legal reviews and measures like those disclaimers to ensure that we don't infringe on their rights. (We also don't scrape their results, or indeed visit their site at all; we get everything from public search API's like Google Custom Search and the Bing search API.)
- shanecleveland 10y agoNice. I've jumped on searchtempest a few times to avoid flipping through results on CL and to get results from multiple regions at once. It works!