I read from this > I built the API in a few hours, posted the answer, and forgot about it — until a few months later I got an email saying my server usage was

I read from this > I built the API in a few hours, posted the answer, and forgot about it — until a few months later I got an email saying my server usage was off the charts. I’d been getting millions of requests per day. that they basically just set it up as a side-project and answered a couple questions on SO about it only to be confronted with its explosive growth after a few months. One could then interpret the author in that situation as thinking "don't need marketing, who's gonna use this little thing I made anyway. [a couple months later] Oh shit, this blew up and I didn't even need to spend anything on marketing it besides plugging it on Stackoverflow occasionally".