About Us

When was your big bang?

Wallwisher was born out of the offices of SharedCopy in January 2008 (and you thought only living beings conceived). For over a year, the project was in a perpetual zombified state thanks to the academic commitments of the project's sole active janitor (pronounced 'yan - eetor'), Nitesh (@xiphar). In April 2009, the project was brought back from the dead.

Where did the idea come from?

Wallwisher's janitor has a post-it overuse problem. He uses post-its as reminders, coasters, bookmarks, wrappers for used gum, to-do list managers, memos. So he decided to have some post-its for the web. SharedCopy, a startup that dealt with adding notes to web pages, therefore, came as a natural choice for the janitor's December internship. It was there that the janitor came up with the idea for using a sticky-note/noticeboard interface for communicating on the web.

How is Wallwisher built?

Wallwisher is coded in PHP which is, as the name suggests, a language full of Pretty Horrible Practices. To find coding nirvana, therefore, Wallwisher uses the CodeIgniter PHP framework which has to be the next messiah many religions are waiting for.

On the front end, the coolness is possible thanks to the jQuery javascript library. Anyone out there who uses any other javascript library is, in the janitor's opinion, a web hater.

Who is responsible for this mess?

Unless you have a severe case of anterograde amnesia, you'd remember that Nitesh, the janitor, is the only active developer on Wallwisher. He likes post-its and he likes films. Other than that there is little interesting to talk about him.

The following people have, knowingly or unknowingly, have made Wallwisher possible:

• Tejas Kumar Viswanath and Pranav Piyush
• Choon Keat, the one man wrecking machine who made the beauty that is SharedCopy, Wallwisher's natural parent!
• Chris Campbell, Kevin Hale, and Ryan Campbell, the guys behind Wufoo.com
• Mark James of FamFamFam.com fame
• Travis Beckham of Squidfingers fame