10 years feels like a good time to thank some folks who were instrumental in helping get the Niice ball rolling, even if it was only a nudge:

@danmall was the first person I showed a mockup of Niice to, and the first person to say “that looks cool, you should build that”

@[email protected] was the person who took my basic prototype and actually made it work, and did the lion’s share of development for the first few years.

When I told Jon Gold about the traffic we were getting, he recommended putting ads on it.

I shared an office with @andymcmillan at the time, and he encouraged me to reach out to the likes of Campaign Monitor & Mailchimp for “sponsorship”.

@buzz was heading up design at Campaign Monitor then, and liked what we were doing, so very kindly sponsored us for several months (despite a miniscule clickthrough rate). Mailchimp, Squarespace and others did the same.

At the time, I was still consulting for a couple of startups in Dublin, and still exploring lots of different business ideas... including, randomly, an app to help farmers track cattle (even though I know nothing about farming).

@paulca was the one who told me to wise up and focus on Niice, since it already had momentum, was bringing in revenue, and was actually in a space I was interested in.