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The punch card graph for the Open Source engine behind Lichess that he wrote is... impressive! https://github.com/ornicar/lila/graphs/punch-card

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This whole project is impressive! Programming, community managing, marketing, etc, it seems this guy is working full time on that site. But what is the business plan?

To quote happy0: "the plan is to avoid business!"

For more info, see http://lichess.org/blog/U4skkUQAAEAAhIGz/why-is-lichess-free

Also note that we suck at marketing, but it doesn't matter, since we don't do it at all.

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