AdTools 2 Years Later

2 years ago, I launched a service called AdTools.  It was never meant to be used by anyone but me, but instead of spending a lot of time to lock it down to myself, I opened it up to the world.  I never mentioned it to anyone, never marketed it, just used it on all of my craigslist postings.  I had maybe 1 support email a week from it (which I thought was amazingly high) for the first few months, so I made it a little more friendly (still ugly, just friendlier).

Since then I have received 5 emails total.  I think I did a damn good job with my user experience mods to it.

Well now it has been 2 years, and I was just about to shut the site down (I figured it wasn’t being used).  I logged into the server to check on the last AdTracker created, and I was flabbergasted!  Just 5 minutes earlier, so I start digging through the log, and found that I have 100 users, 1,000 trackers and 100,000 Ad Views counted!

I had no idea that this site was nearly as popular as it was.