What was your motivation?

[Migi]

I like to hear stories behind why people build forums or blogs or websites in the first place. And undoubtedly along the way there are moments when you feel like you can't just keep on, fall behind, but something happened and you found your motivation again.

What was your motivation for starting up a site? And if you ever fall behind, what brought you back? Did your motivation change along the way, and did it affect the way your site grew?

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[Casper]

Originally I started a forum when a favourite of mine died down. I wanted to keep something similar going.

Initially it didn't work out the way I wanted it to, but eventually it did get to the point where I wanted it to.

 

[Migi]

Originally I started a forum when a favourite of mine died down. I wanted to keep something similar going.

Initially it didn't work out the way I wanted it to, but eventually it did get to the point where I wanted it to.

That's interesting. There was a time I had a similar situation. I even contacted the old staff members of the old forum, some still wanted to keep on going but unfortunately we never got there. It's cool that you could finally get where you wanted to, must've been lots of work.

 

[David]

Just out of interest and if it was a site which informed people, then just out of the want to help people.

 

[Teg]

Well for me, I love to design graphics. There aren't a whole lot of graphic design related discussion boards out there anymore, so I wanted to bring them back into the light. I'm in the process of trying to learn how to navigate myBB so that I can learn how to implement my designs into a theme.

 

[jacktheking]

I like to have my very own website since I know about the internet. First, I use those free web builder. Such as Wix. I do not know how to SEO or should I say that I dont even know about SEO. However after sometime, I am addicted to gaming. About one year later, I feel like making my own games(RPG Games). I asked other people on the internet how to make my own games. They told me to learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. I try to learn but i just cant, I just cant stop gaming!

After sometime, I like how forum work and I am a big forum fans! One day I decided to make my own forum. Again I use free forum host such as lefora. Nobody join my forum and I stopped making my own forum and start gaming again..

After a few month of gaming, I try to learn HTML again, this time I picked up some basic HTML. I also learn about the basic domain hosting, web hosting etc.. First, I make one ''Free Flash Game'' site. Because i only use HTML, it was really hard to update and edit it. So i gave up.

About one year ago, I learn about MyBB from someone. I thought to give it a try. It work great! I use .tk domain and 000webhost. However after sometime I learn more about .tk and 000webhost. I thought of switching domain and hosting. I tried finding free domain and good web hosting. However.. my luck was not that great.. I gave up again..

Half a year ago, I decided to use a sub domain and try gegahost out. It was great, but the problem is that I have not much friend in the internet.. So no one join my forum. However, I find out about ''Post Exchange'' on MyBB Official Forums. I had a few exchange with others user of MyBB. It work great(again..). There was only a few people doing exchange on MyBB. So I search for site that have peoples who want to do post exchange. After a long researching.. Finally! I find out about this great site, ForumPromotion! I joined and post a topic about my forum in the Post Exchange forum.. I did a few exchange with other user. After that i learn about bandwidth and other thing which led me to close my forum again..

3 Months ago, I came back to ForumPromotion just to have a look. To my surprise, I did not see the ''Free Domain'' thread the last time. This thread make me wanted to start a website again! After a long self-thinking, I decided to make a Pokemon Wiki Site! First, I went to Forum Cash Exchange forum to earn some ForumPromotion Cash(FP Cash). After 2 months or so, I had 2,000 FP Cash. Finally i have the cash to buy my own domain! During that two month i learn even more about the webs! I also found a host which can give me what I wanted. ForumPromotion really help me lot! Although today my site have not been set-up, but i am sure that my site will be a successfully site in the future!

 

[ContentCreator]

Well, I just love to create websites and to add helpful content on them. It is much easier and fun for me to build sites than to promote them because I am more the technical and creative person than a marketer. This mostly results in a big lack of traffic what of course is frustrating and sometimes takes away the excitement about a site. I have spent nights and days to learn online marketing but I still stuggle wiht it. Still it is my motivation to create helpful, interesting information and community sites that bring much value and a great experience to internet users.

 

[Smokey]

Well, I set up my site for gamers. I'm a huge gamer and I've been gaming all my life so I made a site dedicated to it. I'm also into technology and buying the latest gizmos and gadgets so I wanted a place where I can post my thoughts and reviews for them all. 🙂

 

[Pinky]

A general chat forum. I figured that would cover most things so give people lots to chat about. I was wrong, it just doesn't work that way. There have been many times that you feel like giving up as you lose your way. It's strange but sometimes I find spending time away from the forum has helped but other times spending more time there has given me more motivation than anything to try harder. We are going to be changing the set up shortly so that's taken up some time to put together, there's going to be some changes for the better I hope. If not, then I'll have to think of something else.

 

[Commander]

My motivation to start my company all boiled down to one factor in the end...I wasn't satisfied as a customer. Oh, believe me, I have been a customer of virtually all the well known providers. HostGator (I have to give them credit...were probably the best out of all of them but they just weren't the ones for me...I recall being number one in the queue for 15 minutes just to get onto live chat sometimes; although other times it was an almost instant pick-up. I also found their service rather slow as I'm in the UK and they're in the US so my website and the hosted server had a few thousand miles between them :lol: ). Anyway, I'd also tried 123-reg, Heart Internet, 1and1 (hell...I need say no more about 1and1....JEEZ! AWFUL! EUGH!), and the list continues. I am very picky when it comes to "MY" service. I am a very selfish customer and I want everything to be "just perfect" or fall not-far short of to say the least. In the end I realised that the only way I was going to get precisely what I wanted was if I was going to give it to myself, and that was when I bought my first server. It was about a year or so later that I decided to start my own company and it just took off. I had clear, concise plans for Rat Hosting. I knew exactly how I wanted it to be. I wanted to give customers exactly what I wanted when I was a customer. I now have a triple digit client base and am growing by the month. Actually "I" is now a "we"...so yeah, that was my motivation. 😎
My experience as a "computer guy" came in mightily handy when running a server. Hell, I remember the first time I touched root. Damn, it was like walking into a jungle in the dead of night without a torch. A few years on I am now a certified systems administrator and was even offered a job for one of the major UK providers with a pretty nice starting salary but I declined the offer as would rather make a success of my company than support someone else's. 😀 My customers are committed to me and I to them. We are a family and we do business differently. :great:

 

[Migi]

Thank you for sharing, guys! :cheer:

Well for me, I love to design graphics. There aren't a whole lot of graphic design related discussion boards out there anymore, so I wanted to bring them back into the light. I'm in the process of trying to learn how to navigate myBB so that I can learn how to implement my designs into a theme.

I thought there were quite many GFX forums out there? Well, I can be wrong, and all forums has their own characteristics and specialization. Good luck! :great:

Well, I just love to create websites and to add helpful content on them. It is much easier and fun for me to build sites than to promote them because I am more the technical and creative person than a marketer. This mostly results in a big lack of traffic what of course is frustrating and sometimes takes away the excitement about a site. I have spent nights and days to learn online marketing but I still stuggle wiht it. Still it is my motivation to create helpful, interesting information and community sites that bring much value and a great experience to internet users.

True, that happens to me too. I didn't originally aim to create a place so professional to be easily found on Google or something like that so I didn't study them that much. But I still had fun with my forum while it lasted, and the community was fun, and we still carried on somehow on Facebook when the forum closed. It's good enough for me. XD

A general chat forum. I figured that would cover most things so give people lots to chat about. I was wrong, it just doesn't work that way. There have been many times that you feel like giving up as you lose your way. It's strange but sometimes I find spending time away from the forum has helped but other times spending more time there has given me more motivation than anything to try harder. We are going to be changing the set up shortly so that's taken up some time to put together, there's going to be some changes for the better I hope. If not, then I'll have to think of something else.

I realized that too. Not just in forums, but in hobbies in general. No matter how much I like something sometimes there are moments when I feel like fed up with everything. Stopping for a while and enjoy other things help to relieve that kind of feeling. And I always found something to bring me back to forums with stronger motivation than ever. XD

My motivation to start my company all boiled down to one factor in the end...I wasn't satisfied as a customer. Oh, believe me, I have been a customer of virtually all the well known providers. HostGator (I have to give them credit...were probably the best out of all of them but they just weren't the ones for me...I recall being number one in the queue for 15 minutes just to get onto live chat sometimes; although other times it was an almost instant pick-up. I also found their service rather slow as I'm in the UK and they're in the US so my website and the hosted server had a few thousand miles between them :lol: ). Anyway, I'd also tried 123-reg, Heart Internet, 1and1 (hell...I need say no more about 1and1....JEEZ! AWFUL! EUGH!), and the list continues. I am very picky when it comes to "MY" service. I am a very selfish customer and I want everything to be "just perfect" or fall not-far short of to say the least. In the end I realised that the only way I was going to get precisely what I wanted was if I was going to give it to myself, and that was when I bought my first server. It was about a year or so later that I decided to start my own company and it just took off. I had clear, concise plans for Rat Hosting. I knew exactly how I wanted it to be. I wanted to give customers exactly what I wanted when I was a customer. I now have a triple digit client base and am growing by the month. Actually "I" is now a "we"...so yeah, that was my motivation. 😎
My experience as a "computer guy" came in mightily handy when running a server. Hell, I remember the first time I touched root. Damn, it was like walking into a jungle in the dead of night without a torch. A few years on I am now a certified systems administrator and was even offered a job for one of the major UK providers with a pretty nice starting salary but I declined the offer as would rather make a success of my company than support someone else's. 😀 My customers are committed to me and I to them. We are a family and we do business differently. :great:

Nice story. I also know some others who started websites out of being unsatisfied with a specific need, thus aiming to be better. Quite a strong motivation for me; at least they know the direction of what they build. Good luck with your hosting! 🙂

 

[THF_Martin]

My motivation is just wanting a bright future for me and my family which allows me to keep going to make a great project and turn it into a success (to the best of my abilities)

 

[Ghost]

What is your motivation for making a forum?

I'm just wondering why you all are making a forum?
In my opinion, many administrators make a forum thinking they're going to make a ton of money, and then fail/quit a couple weeks later. Many forums are unoriginal and have been done before, so there's hardly any innovation here.

So that's why I am curious! Why are you making a forum?

 

[Atrox]

Re: What is your motivation for making a forum?

I make a forum because I just want to experience what it's like to run one of that certain genre, if I don't like that I'll wait a while and attempt another genre or try to think of a unique; but that's not going to be easy because most area's have been covered. 🙂

 

[spiderman]

Re: What is your motivation for making a forum?

I started my forum when I was in College, my forum is for College students. Later seeing a big interest on my site by the audience, I continued developing it.

 

[Ghost]

Re: What is your motivation for making a forum?

That's cool Spider.
A guy here had UniversityForums but he gave up on it. He had spent hundreds on the theme too, it was a shame.

Congrats bro, u might get the reward for getting me to sign up on a new forum for the first time in years.

 

[cenydd]

I was a moderator on a very large political forum for three and a half years, but the admin (having been basically inactive for years, leaving the mods to run the place on a day-to-day basis) decided to appoint a sub admin to unilaterally change everything - rules, procedures, etc., in a 'my way or the highway' move. Over a period of months leading up to the big changes (having an idea of what was likely to be coming from the way things were going) several of the mods left, and when the changes came three more of us resigned on the same day. I just felt (and still feel) that the new rules and procedures weren't fair to the membership (or to the moderators, for that matter), and violated the principles of the forum's own Mission Statement that I had volunteered to help uphold - I couldn't in all conscience continue in the role.

When I mentioned to a few other ex-mods that I had thought about starting up a new forum myself, they all encouraged me to do it, so I went ahead and gave it a try (and so far it's going very well). Most of the former mods that I worked with over that period at the other place are now members of my forum, although I still have friends among the mods at the former place, so I'm certainly not seeking to disrupt things for them or anything (in fact, my forum has a rule about attacking other forums for that reason). I disagreed with what was happening, so I left and moved on. Now I'm trying to build a new forum for the future, built along the lines of fairness and free expression of opinion (as long as it is expressed in a civil manner, of course!) and not looking to the past at all, and so far it's been a very interesting experience.

 

[eastwest]

The motivation factor that made me blogging is money, one of my friend gave me an idea that we could generate income having beautiful blog but now it is very challenging to maintain it as I am busy in other field and I haven't got my PR even o. And income... I loss my hope.

 

[Cloudc.me]

My motivation was an idea, which made me into thinking for way to implement it.

 

[Frozen Vulture]

I don't know why, but watch a few documentaries about the worlds richest people and you will find that a lot of them started out hatching some crazy idea in a garage or basement that went on to be huge.