It Started With An Idea…
I created a weight graph for myself a few years back, and when my friends saw it, they all wanted one. Frank Pernicano jokingly suggested “Skinnyr” as a name to poke fun at the web 2.0 craze, and whattaya know? It was available.
I built the first version of the website with Chris Casper in about 6 hours one weekend. The site did pretty decent initially. We received a little press coverage from a then-smalltime site called Mashable and gained a few users.
It wasn’t until Allen Stern of CenterNetworks fame used us in a fat-off challenge that we started taking off. We got all the way up to 1600 users before I decided this was for real, and we needed a redesign.
After that release, we were declared dead by TechCrunch. (Thanks Duncan.) That was at 1700 users. Today we have over 23,000 users. Needless to say, the site has grown a little.
Over the years I’ve re-programmed the site from the ground up, with the most recent being in the summer of 2008. This time the design and build were all mine. I’ve poured a lot of time into Skinnyr, so thank you for checking it out!
