01 / Timeline
How this started.
A reasonably accurate account of events, with the embarrassing parts left in.
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2023Origin
It starts as a joke
A file uploader and some bad CSS, written between rounds on a care home night shift by someone certain it would go nowhere. It went somewhere.
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2024Growth
The duct tape era
A real site now exists, held together with hope and Stack Overflow answers. Profiles, meme generation and uploads all land in December. Sleep does not.
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2025v1.0
Ugly, and running
It works. Barely. The interface looks like it was drawn at 4am, because it was. Still up the whole year, which counts for something.
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2026v2.0
Gut and rebuild
BetterAuth replaces the passport spaghetti. Our own CDN replaces Cloudinary. An admin panel that a person can actually use. Same site underneath, finally dressed for company.