After five and a half years on the web, http://www.fantasyfilmleague.com/ is no more. As the last active member of the FFL, I finally shut down the site a couple of days ago. We’ve handed over the domain, the code and the database to a good friend; hopefully the game, in some form or other, will come back soon.
It was fun but it was a slog. Eventually the slog outweighed the fun. I learnt a lot about how to run a site, from many perspectives: coding, administration, financial. If we failed anywhere, it was because we didn’t follow the mantra, be patient for growth but impatient for profit. We were impatient for growth and patient for profit, meaning we never broke even and that was the proverbially straw.
Tags: programming