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There are a few more sterling examples: * Craig Newmark was running craigslist solo for a couple of years, when it was still a mailing list. * The imdb guy (C
by didip 16y ago
There are a few more sterling examples:
* Craig Newmark was running craigslist solo for a couple of years, when it was still a mailing list.
* The imdb guy (Col Needham) runs it with only a handful of volunteers until it was sold to amazon.
* Brad Fitzpatrick ran LiveJournal alone for a while when it was still headquartered in Oregon. During that time he wrote memcached.
* Drew Curtis runs Fark.com alone, since 1999.
* joshu was running del.icio.us alone while still having full time job.
* Markus Frind is the poster boy of doing it alone with his plentyoffish site.
* Marco was doing instapaper as side hobby while being CTO at Tumblr. Couple years later he went full time on it.
- haploid 16y agoSomewhat related: Plentyoffish is also an excellent example of this principle as applied to hardware architecture. POF was doing insane levels of traffic for most of its life on 2-3 average-sized servers.
- forensic 16y agoHe did it by providing a shitty product though. Admittedly, a lot of people used it due to sheer network effects. So it provided utility. But personally I would be ashamed if I built POF.
- iloveyouocean 16y agoDrew Curtis does not run Fark.com alone. He has had several employees for years now.
- didip 16y agoah, Wikipedia failed me. Thanks for the update.