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@lee94josh I can't take full credit for that... I developed the idea after seeing a tweet from @rrhoover and things went from there! :D Personally, a quick and easy way to blog and share is just what *I* need. But I'm hopeful that more people try it out, even for no other reason than to develop their writing skills! :)

@machinehuman I love your MVP approach this btw. Want to share with everyone else? :)

@rrhoover Sure! Love to! So after I stole your tweet image idea (:D) I pretty much just started writing one day while on the train. By the time I got to my stop I had something around 200 words long, which was not a huge blog post but it felt long enough to be fairly complete. I didn't have a lot of time to write more, so I just screenshotted it and tweeted it out. I don't think it did very well, but it was fun to do! So I did it again. To me there's just something nice about the immediacy of it. After doing that for a few more times, it occurred to me that this might be a really cool little service for other people too. So I talked about the idea with a few people (including you, Ryan! :D) and had to figure out how to actually capture submissions. I had originally envisioned it as a 100% mobile app (and I might get there someday) but doing the web version would get me something much faster! I basically couldn't have made this 100% on my own, without the use of the free tools that are now available. I've always been fond of starting off lo-fi, and with tools like Wufoo, it gives me a way to actually make fully functioning things (not just simple prototypes) while exploring ideas and learning a lot along the way. On that note, there are so many tools available to get started that I hope more and more designers start founding/creating things. Dribbble's cool to look at, but the real lessons are learned by doing.

@rrhoover Oh one more thing... I think the very first version of it, starting from 0 to the basic service, was put together on a Saturday. I didn't even have the domain when I started... :D I think I'm now on the 3rd iteration of the service? I have tons more that I want to do, but I'm learning a bunch of programming stuff to tinker around with things at the moment, so it might take a little while. Unless someone wants to volunteer some time! :D

@machinehuman would love to be able to post these directly to my own twitter feed.

@BlendahTom Yep. I am looking for someone to help me with that. I am a 1-man army right now with very little programming experience... But it's definitely on the road map!