One of those usual nights when Angerpreneur refuses to catch
much sleep, while randomly scrolling through emails in bed, he realizes that he
is a just few hours away from losing the domain name for their website. Well,
he’d forgotten to renew the annual subscription!
Like most other last ditch efforts, this one of renewing the
domain subscription also turns out to be successful. However, what also hits
Angerpreneur – is the thought it’s been a goddamn one full year, since www.channelyst.in went live! Godspeed!
If you think this story was fun, wait till you hear the
prequel to it.
On a late unearthly hour well past midnight, in the march of
2013, www.channelyst.in was born. The circumstances and events leading to its
birth are equally dramatic.
Having come back from a series of unyielding IT vendor
meetings and maybe a clandestine round of drinks along with the co-founder –
sleep was the last thing on Angerpreneur’s mind. While lying awake in bed and
browsing through content on website design on the internet, one thing led to
another. Before Angerpreneur even realized he was at his wits end trying to
figure out the Latin and Greek on godaddy.com and hostgator.com.
Now I know that the godaddies of the world might take
offence to that. After all they claim to be designing web designing tools and
products for the laymen. But what they forget is that designing stuff for
laymen isn’t maybe always sufficient. There are hardcore-technology-averse
jerks starting up every day in some or the other parts of the world!
Your truly Angerpreneur just happens to be one of them.
But then, overcoming all inadequacies of technological know-how
and guided by the indomitable spirit of startups – the website was finally created
well before the sun came up. All this happened on a mortal Ipad, in the pitch darkness
of the bedroom (lest the wife wakes up) and a marginally inebriated mind.
But what deserves special mention here is, the thrill of
seeing your own website go up on the goddamn internet is to felt oneself to be
believed! Only the ones who've felt it themselves will know what a kick ass
feeling it is.
The first email link went out to the co-founding sweet bitch!
Still regret not being able to see the expression on his face when he saw it
for the first time. Got a proud smiley in the reply email he sent back.
One year hence, cut to circa march 2014 – even today the
first email is shot off to the co-founding bitch! Got 2 prouder smileys this
time in the reply email.
Love you co-founding bitch, we just turned one!
