Ghacks was founded three years ago on a rainy October evening. Back then I had no plans to become a full time blogger and earn my money from blogging but every now and then life turns out to be sweet and give you chances if you only look out for them. It took more than 18 month before I fully realized the potential of Ghacks. It was back then that I started making plans to quit my day job and become a full time blogger.
It took another seven month until I finally quit my day job and started blogging full time. Ghacks has seen some tremendous change in those three years. From a site with a few hundred visitors per day to a website that’s coming close to 30000. That’s a huge leap if you consider that the site did not have a marketing budget and that all growth was natural.
The main reason was probably mouth to mouth advertisement from guys that like my site. I know that you are out there and tell other people about my site because you like it and I would like to thank you for that.
Ghacks would not be what it is without you and the rest of the readers and visitors. To celebrate the third birthday I thought I donate ten Ghacks shirts to lucky readers who post a comment in this thread. I like to hear your opinion about the future of Ghacks. Should I add a new category, new topics, concentrate on something, write more, less, longer, shorter. Everything that comes to your mind is important to me.
You can pick the black or red shirt. Both are made of an exceptional quality (I have to know, I got four of them that I wear regularly)
Good luck to everyone and happy birthday to Ghacks!
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Thunderbird Birthday Reminder
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Happy third anniversary, gHacks ^_^
Hoooray~ So have anyone sent a birthday present to gHacks?
Happy Birthday.
Keep up the good work.
I always start my online session by checking out Ghacks.It’s addictive and awesome.
Thank You & Happy Birthday, you deserve it
“So have anyone sent a birthday present to gHacks?”
yea tons of clicks on ads :o)
good continuation
Ahh, suddenly loads of comments on a post, it’d be nice if more people posted comments regularly like this.
Been reading gHacks before you did it full time and I’ve always liked the varied mix of articles. Keep it up and I hope it continues to grow.
Happy B Day.
hi martin..happy BD ghacks!! you have managed to keep the exceptional quality of this blog intact over the years..
ps i did not receive the tshirt from the last competition :(
Happy belated birthday! Ghacks is one of my favorite blogs, one thing i would like to suggest you to add would be more opensource alternatives to the commercial apps and tutorials (linux related).
I am frequent reader of ghacks, I wish a belated happy b’day to ghacks.
I also write blog on computer tips and tricks, some of my articles were linked by ghacks i would like to thank ghacks.net for that.
please give me a ghacks.net blackt-shirt
I’m already proud owner of Ghacks T-shirt :)
I think it’s all OK with Ghacks now. If I have some ideas, or, maybe, guess post – I will write to you.
Congrats Martin :)
Love your blog!
Finally.
The fisrt feed I read on GReader, and sometimes the only one.
Write. Only this. OK?
Two birthdays on October 3rd! My second daughter was born on October 3rd, 2008! That’s why I haven’t been commenting (or reading).
While I love my Ghacks shirt and it get compliments wherever I go, I hope that some other new readers win one and spread the word.
I’d like to see more articles about Firefox and Linux / Ubuntu. The only Windows software articles that I read are the ones that run portably, that is, without installing. I use those only when using Windows machines at the university, or when fixing friends’ Windows machines (the few that are left on Windows).
Thanks! Happy birthday!
Thank you for providing us such precious information!
A visit from Hunan,China.
Chinese:
感谢您为我们提供了如此宝贵的信息！
Hi MArtiN,
HAPPY BiRTHday fOR ghACks.
I never myself consider lucky. But i would lov to have a t-shirts of Ghacks.
Shafi
I know I’m a bit late, but happy birthday mate – I hope gHacks is still here in 3 years!