1532 days without code changes

American developer Ryan Detzel (Rayan Detzel) told an amazing story of how an unfamiliar girl called on his mobile phone once and asked if he owned the Invoice Journal website - and when will the sending / receiving invoices work? Ryan hardly remembered the name of this project, which he had written on the train for four years on the way to work. He was surprised that someone used it at all.

Arriving home, the author quickly corrected an error in the Apache server settings - and checked the logs of the “abandoned” project. It turned out that over the past 4 years, 2 months and 12 days, people did not just use it, but more than a hundred new accounts were registered every month. All these years, traffic has steadily grown.



Now Ryan wants to figure out what the matter is, that is, why a rather primitive amateur site without any advertising, without any promotion turned out to be so tenacious. He will look at who sent the most invoices through him and how much to determine the target audience. True, Ryan says, it’s scary to even look into the code, because there’s probably a lot of bugs there, and he has already switched to Python.