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The timing on this is odd. Patrick says he built the Wikipedia app over a few weeks in Japan in late 2007, which would have been soon after founding Auctomatic

The timing on this is odd. Patrick says he built the Wikipedia app over a few weeks in Japan in late 2007, which would have been soon after founding Auctomatic: https://venturebeat.com/2007/10/22/auctomatic-launches-better-tools-for-ebay-powersellers/ https://venturebeat.com/2007/10/22/auctomatic-launches-bette... It seems like a strange decision take take a month off after founding your startup to build a side project in Japan.

tedmiston 8y ago
From the article: > Then in November of 2007, I went to visit my friend in Japan for a month. And in Japan they have all of this incredibly advanced cellular technology and all of the rest. And so because of that, they had very few wireless networks, and my phone didn’t work. As a result, I actually had very little access to the Internet. I sort of realized without Wikipedia how little I really knew. And I had just got an iPhone, so I decided to try basically putting a copy of Wikipedia on the phone, so that I’d have it as I was walking around in Japan.