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When you came up with tiny letter did you do it to serve a personal need and did you ever have any intent to sell it so quickly?
by leebandoni 15y ago
When you came up with tiny letter did you do it to serve a personal need and did you ever have any intent to sell it so quickly?
- pud 15y agoI used to run a popular blog in 2000. The thing I didn't like about blogging, was that if I shut down my blog (which I eventually did), I would lose my entire audience. So I started letting people sign up for email newsletters back then, just to kind of "own" the contact info of my readers, so I could continue communicating with them, even if I shut down my blog. Today everyone is a publisher. And with the proliferation of social media, RSS and eventually Twitter came to solve that problem -- even if I don't tweet for a year, I'll still have my followers (assuming people are still using Twitter then, which I think they will be). However, having the email addresses of your followers & fans still seems a bit more durable, not relying on Twitter or any other service. So... that's why I built it. Did I think I would sell it so quickly? Originally, no.