the site's probably 11 or 12 years old. i started in 2011 and it was already up and running and had it's 1M photo sometime in 2012 or 2013 or thereabouts.
@30pics4jackiesdiamond@summerfield@lsquared Thanks, I should have looked in Quicken first, my first Ace membership was in August of 2010. missed a couple of years, so I don't think all my posts exist here.
@olivetreeann - I think 2006 was when he started shooting his own photo-a-day project.
The domain 365project.org was registered on January 3rd 2009
I went back through my emails and found I registered on March 2nd 2009, so he had it up and running very soon after registering it. Or maybe he started earlier on a different domain name.
@sudweeks@30pics4jackiesdiamond My daughter had read about the site and thought I'd enjoy doing this. Along with a crush of people many of us posted our first pictures 1 January 2010...and some of us are still here!
I started in 2011, too. Time has sure flown by. It doesn't seem that long.
My daughter and a friend of hers got me interested in doing it since they were
and I'm still here and they didn't last long at all. LOL My dad was an avid
photographer so I've always been interested in photography since I was a kid.
Yeah I started my project in 2006 and was using a hacked together personal website for the first few years, after visiting a web developer conference and seeing everyone else working at "startups" (something i was blissfully aware of back then) - I thought I should probably be working on my own startup, so I built the basics of what 365 project is today, registered the domain and put it live without a plan or thinking much about it, there was no way of making money back then (no ace membership) but nobody was using the site.
Then all of a sudden one New Years day the site went offline, I was really confused and my hosting provider said there had been so much traffic they shut my site down because it was using too many resources. This was the first time I realised people would want to start at the beginning of the new year.
I spent the next few days moving the site to new hosting, working out how to store all the photos and then quickly realised I need to charge some money to actually make the site sustainable, I was travelling and living in Australia at the time, with no job and no money and only a backback, so Ace membership was born.
Obviously the site has moved on since then, but it's still the same core concept and still just me running it, with a little help from Rachael, still not very profitable haha, I never got any offers from facebook to buy the site - oh well, it's my little baby and I'm glad it has helped so many people over the years!
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The domain 365project.org was registered on January 3rd 2009
I went back through my emails and found I registered on March 2nd 2009, so he had it up and running very soon after registering it. Or maybe he started earlier on a different domain name.
@scrivna There should be a 365 History link somewhere Ross! You've really created a legacy here.
My daughter and a friend of hers got me interested in doing it since they were
and I'm still here and they didn't last long at all. LOL My dad was an avid
photographer so I've always been interested in photography since I was a kid.
Yeah I started my project in 2006 and was using a hacked together personal website for the first few years, after visiting a web developer conference and seeing everyone else working at "startups" (something i was blissfully aware of back then) - I thought I should probably be working on my own startup, so I built the basics of what 365 project is today, registered the domain and put it live without a plan or thinking much about it, there was no way of making money back then (no ace membership) but nobody was using the site.
Then all of a sudden one New Years day the site went offline, I was really confused and my hosting provider said there had been so much traffic they shut my site down because it was using too many resources. This was the first time I realised people would want to start at the beginning of the new year.
I spent the next few days moving the site to new hosting, working out how to store all the photos and then quickly realised I need to charge some money to actually make the site sustainable, I was travelling and living in Australia at the time, with no job and no money and only a backback, so Ace membership was born.
Obviously the site has moved on since then, but it's still the same core concept and still just me running it, with a little help from Rachael, still not very profitable haha, I never got any offers from facebook to buy the site - oh well, it's my little baby and I'm glad it has helped so many people over the years!