750 Words
A private journaling site with analytics and a community.
I was inspired by morning pages (popularized by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way) and built the site for myself. It grew organically for years with minimal new features and will be turning 10 this year.
750words.com was originally launched on December 15th, 2009. The blog post I wrote a few days after launching it accidentally got deleted many years ago, but I found it on the WaY bAcK mAcHiNe:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130411095051/http://enjoymentland.com/2009/12/16/750-words/
I launched it 4 days after thinking of the idea.
This interview describes some of the journey from a business perspective:
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/063525ef84
10 years later, I've begun thinking about what a V2 would be:
https://medium.com/750-words/working-on-750-words-v2-321a7284153c