- Got my first big speaking engagement in USA (I’m in India).
- Got my small service company acquired-hired and got introduced to the world of Startups.
- Bought a car, paid rent, and bootstrapped a few Startups.
- Got a Girlfriend. A girl emailed that it is impossible for the live visiter on my counter to be speeding so fast (she suspected I might be cheating with a script that just increase the counter). I got a date to proof that my website was indeed that popular. Once upon a time, my website was pretty well visited. If I remember correctly, it did slipped in within 100 top Alexa Ranking (I’m fuzzy on this but it was hot).
- Bought down a scammy/spammy company with a single blog post. But felt really bad within 5-6 months, and wiped out the whole content and apologized to the business owner. He did what he did but I should not have done that, which killed a business.
- Helped a lot of businesses/startups launch by writing about them and felt really happy.
- I know, at-least, one big tech company quoted my article as one of the sources for their patent.
- Quite a few people have emailed me saying that my website shaped their career and I feel really happy about them. In-fact, there was a parent that emailed me as their son got the inspiration from my website to pursue a tech career. He was very happy when I called up and talked to him.
- Of course, if not directly, my website played a vital role in a lot of interesting freelance/contract work that came - Disney, STARZ, Pearson, Cambridge, etc. Well, I got an almost-free entry to Disney World, Los Angeles for about two years around 2005-2007. ;-)
- One rainy evening, I was with friends at HackerDojo in Mountain View. A guy behind came up and asked, “You are brajeshwar.com, right?”
- Also, I have gotten a lot of legal takedowns, threats, copied/stolen without permission and what not!