[chanux]

Nice tool. Nice reason.

"I decided to do it because I was worried about my mom. She hadn't started a blog yet, but I had this crazy fear that when she did, she'd be bombarded by spam for Viagra and think that had something to do with what I did all day."

Matt's reason for creating Akismet.

And I like the way he ends up.

"My mom started a blog a couple of weeks ago. Six years into this, and we finally made it easy enough for my mom to use."

Increase usability. A goal any product should try to gain.