wikiFeet was built in 2008 by me, Eli Ozer. I discovered my fondness for feet at the age of 13. Back then, if I liked a celebrity and was curious about their feet, the best I could hope for was a glimpse of them in a TV show or movie. Fast forward 15 years - by then, I was a decent programmer. Although the internet had been around for a while, there still wasn't a proper, free site with pages dedicated to each celebrity's feet. I knew exactly how I wanted the site to be because I primarily built it for my own use. I started working on it in my spare time as a hobby - a way to collect photos and maybe allow others to help gather them as well. By August 2008, the site was ready and online. I had just finished the sign-up form, and I was the only user. Wandering the empty halls of wikiFeet, I jokingly saw it as a kind of deity - something I had created, but still waiting for life to fill it. So, I chose the username Creator. I began adding free content that I found online and used a banner-exchange system, where I put up banners for other sites in exchange for them displaying mine. I didn't have money to advertise the site, nor did I believe I'd get that investment back. The site had a few visits here and there - nothing significant. Also, since I only uploaded photos of celebrities that I liked, there were very few galleries. Then, about a year later, a couple of users started contributing a lot of content. With every new gallery they created, the site became more searchable through search engines. After a while, things began to snowball - more content attracted more visitors, and more visitors resulted in even more content. By July 2010, I celebrated with my friends when the site first reached a thousand visitors per day. With the site's increased popularity, I had the chance to talk to people around the world who shared my passion - people who, like me, had at one point felt ashamed of it and found a safe haven on the site. From then on, I realized that although I built the site for myself, it had become something much bigger. The site wasn't about photos anymore; it had become a community. Today, wikiFeet hosts over a million galleries and has about 200,000 daily visitors.