Thanks for posting OS to twitter back then because if you hadn’t I probably would not have kept it up. But seeing how viral it went showed how much general interest there was. Took a while to find the right audience though I’m the architecture and design community. Funny how you had the most followers back then!
Aug 7, 2007: My buddy Steve Searer is keeping things rolling over at http://officesnapshots.com/ He is already up to 26 companies!
I think if you had stuck with only "Web 2.0 Startups" your initial audience's interest would have fizzled out eventually. It's brilliant you were able to pivot to an audience with a more professional interest, an endless stream of content, and better advertising opportunities.
I think from that tweet it ended up on Digg and then passed around a bunch of blogs.
The move to other content was a mostly due to submissions being more widely varied which seemed to indicate broader interest. Once architects started submitting that seemed like the best option and we’ve been doing that angle for maybe 8 years.