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title: 'What a difference a year makes: Gramfeed goes from two hour project to 2 million visitors'
date: '2012-03-01T22:19:44-08:00'
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# What a difference a year makes: Gramfeed goes from two hour project to 2 million visitors

If there’s one thing I love about Portland it’s, our prevailing attitude of “What if…?” What if I took this chunk of technology and did this? What if I mashed this API up with this interesting data source? What if I tried to tweak this thing over here by applying this piece of functionality?

That’s where a lot of the magic comes from. And [Gramfeed](http://www.gramfeed.com/ "Gramfeed")—a photo viewer built off the popular [Instagram](http://instagram.com "Instagram") service—is just one example of that Portland ingenuity. And a year later, it has an interesting story to tell. To the tune of [2 million visitors](http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/02/29/how-gramfeed-went-from-a-2-hour-project-to-a-beast-visited-by-2-million-people/ "How Gramfeed went from a 2 hour project to a beast visited by 2 million people").

It was just a year ago, when [Gramfeed took advantage of a new Instagram API](http://siliconflorist.com/2011/03/04/instagram-iphone-photography-portland-gramfeed-fall-love/ "Gramfeed will make you fall in love all over again") to build a new view for the popular instant, filter-laden, photo-sharing service.

And what [a long strange ride](http://blog.gramfeed.com/post/18460554119/2-hour-side-project-to-2-million-visitors "2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors") it has been:

> Exactly a year ago was when gramfeed.com launched. Instagram had released developer APIs couple weeks prior and I started playing with the APIs and started creating a web interface for Instagram to pretty much do everything that the Instagram iPhone app did on the web. I put together a web interface for Instagram in couple hours over the weekend and launched it.

For more, visit [Gramfeed](http://www.gramfeed.com/ "Gramfeed"), read [Kriskrak’s post](http://blog.gramfeed.com/post/18460554119/2-hour-side-project-to-2-million-visitors "2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors"), visit [The Next Web](http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/02/29/how-gramfeed-went-from-a-2-hour-project-to-a-beast-visited-by-2-million-people/ "How Gramfeed went from a 2 hour project to a beast visited by 2 million people"), or join in the [conversation on Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3645573 "2 hour side-project to 2 million visitors (gramfeed.com)").