The overwhelming motivation behind it seemed to be “I made something, here it is”. Sharing things for the sake of showing them to the world. Somebody had created something, then put it online so you could see it. Visit their website (wait for the dial-up to finish), and it’s yours.

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. — Mia, with valuable secrets 🤫 (@TerribleMia) November 24, 2019

You can stand out of the crowd by simply treating the web platform as what it is: a way to deliver content to people.

The best growth hack is still to build something people enjoy, and then attach no strings to it. You’d be surprised how far that can get you.