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Ask HN: What are some amazing web products made by one person only?
Think of something that is still functional, successful (to an extent) and still maintained by the the one original creator.
- dopplesoldner 12y agofacebook?
- jeffmould 12y agoPlentyOfFish.com - Markus Frind He has help now (although I believe it is still under 100 employees), but I believe he still plays a very integral role in the day-to-day development of the site.
- 27182818284 12y agoThis is a great example too because he did it to learn the language. The fact that it became a business was not the original intention.
- obeid 12y agoI will list one of my own favorites, Draft, by Nathan Kontny.
- ciniglio 12y agoPinboard
- 27182818284 12y agoDo you mean "still only maintained by the one" Or just that the originator still participates? If the former, I don't really think there are any. If the latter, there are tons of examples ranging from Dropbox to Facebook. The "still only" is almost antithetical to anything beyond very small scale success.
- obeid 12y agoI mean still run and maintained by only that one person who started it.
- dangrossman 12y agoYou'll probably find a few good ones in the old recurring income threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
- AznHisoka 12y agothe internet. I heard Al Gore invented it
- _pmf_ 12y ago> the internet. I heard Al Gore invented it He did. He used it then to discover global warming, for which he received the Nobel prize.
- hkarthik 12y agoSifter by Garrett Dimon