[dangrossman]

I wasn't even aware of the concept of a "startup" or what was going on in Silicon Valley when I started making most of my apps. I didn't have any books or strategies. I just made things I was interested in and thought other people would want to use, and some of those things stuck.

I make stuff and if I can get a couple active users, I'll never shut it down. Nothing happened overnight -- W3Counter has around 52000 users but that's after 7 years. I'm still hosting website guestbooks people created with one of my sites in 1996. I don't make much money from that site, but 15 years of accumulated inbound links and authority mean it'll always have traffic and PR I can leverage for kickstarting other sites.