I always wanted to develop a daily writing habit so that I could write to think, and just connect to like-minded folks. At first, I joined a writing community and platform not too different from Lifelog, but it closed down after 2 years and a bunch of us daily writers had no where to go. So I decided to create Lifelog as our second home.

Thankfully, a few of the other daily writers from the now-defunct writing community chose to join Lifelog. And like they say, the rest was history.

Mostly from Twitter. I tweet about writing frequently from my personal account and from the @golifelog account, and most of the folks who join these days are followers or had followed my content for some time.

It's not easy growing a SaaS, and it's easy to get the wrong impression that if you're not having overnight success it means you're doing it wrong. I'd say find a project where you have skin in the game (for Lifelog, I want to have a place to write daily) and can persist even when the going gets tough. Because more often than not, we're in for a long haul.