Build a Fully Functioning Web 2.0 Business in 66.5 Hours

In 2007 Matthew Inman cre­ated Min­gle², a fully func­tion­ing online dat­ing business/website, in just 66.5 hours. From con­cept to launch. 6 months and 2 mil­lion vis­i­tors later, it was acquired by a competitor.

He shared his expe­ri­ences in the aptly named Min­gle² — How I Built a Web 2.0 Dat­ing Site in 66.5 Hours.

Let this be a tes­ta­ment to Web 2.0 and the effec­tive­ness of rapid devel­op­ment frame­works: I built a full-featured dat­ing web­site, from con­cept to launch, in 66.5 hours.  In a typ­i­cal 9–5 job this would amount to about a week and a half.