Wow, these are the stories we need to hear more of!! I'm a bit tired of the overnight success stories getting all the attention.
If such an awesome product has taken so long to make something in the region of 1000 dollars a month then perhaps creating a startup is not as easy as so many people make it out to be...
Totally agree. For most people, even on HN, it is really hard to identify with all those multi million dollar fundings and billion dollar buy outs. This on the other hand, shows what is possible by one person and how it is not that easy to build something nice and useful.
I hope OP keeps publishing posts on what worked, traffic stats, revenue stats etc.
This is another site that was bootstrapped (I believe) http://www.forvo.com/ and seems to be doing quite well (though the quality is debatable sometimes)
