Well, once the site had filled up, there was not really any more demand. Ean and myself, who were doing the orders, went off to do other things. I was working a full time job at the time as well, so that was kind of a relief, because even at 25 years old, 16 hour days take their toll!
I'm English and typically squeamish about money but suffice to say, the site really did make a million dollars (before tax). Alex paid me generously for my services and it paid for a good chunk of the deposit on my house!
Alex has gone on to do a lot of cool stuff. I'm currently principal software developer at Box UK and involved with tech meetups and open source. Oh, I do still rock the human beatbox!
I was the developer who wrote the PHP that this site ran on. I knew Alex from Humanbeatbox.com - we were both beatboxers (known as A-Plus and BeatMuppet) who met at some jams. One night he rang me up saying that he had this site and it was getting a bit out of hand!
Initially he was managing the orders himself and manually updating the site, but as the media coverage grew and the traffic picked up, it was no longer manageable. I wrote a simple system to add, remove and move the pixels and helped with the orders.
Eventually, he had to take a couple of other people on to help with the orders - it really was a media storm as Alex was on TV and stuff!
It was a crazy few weeks but I'm very glad to have been a part of this!
I'm English and typically squeamish about money but suffice to say, the site really did make a million dollars (before tax). Alex paid me generously for my services and it paid for a good chunk of the deposit on my house!
Alex has gone on to do a lot of cool stuff. I'm currently principal software developer at Box UK and involved with tech meetups and open source. Oh, I do still rock the human beatbox!