Wei and I've been friend going to back to my years in undergrad. He was a big influence on me getting involved in web dev. We started by writing our blogs in ASP and Access DB (remember when that was cool?). Over the years, Wei and I have come up a multitude of ideas for websites and the services we would offer. Some of the ideas include sitter (pets and kids) search site (http://www.sittercity.com/) and teacher document share (http://teachers.yahoo.com). As we grew older, we spent nights coming up with these ideas and the proceeded to develop a multitude of excuses (lack of staff,funding, hardware expense, etc...) why we could not get them up and running. Eventually, someone implemented our ideas close enough to what we had in mind and we would abandon our idea.
Recently, Wei had idea for another website. Instead of just talking about like we used to, he researched the idea more and when he decided it was feasible to implement it, he quit his job and started working on it. That's how easyautosales.com came to be. The site is a place where people can sell cars as well as buy new or used cars. Based on his research, Wei decided his latest idea was good enough to compete with the likes of cars.com, carmax.com, vehix.com and even craigslist. It's hard to know whether or not Wei and his team are going to be successful but since their launch 2.5 months ago they managed to have a million cars listed, have over 100,000 pages indexed in Google, achieve over 100,000 visits to the page and as he put it "spend a crap load of money with Amazon Web Services". If you're bored enough, you can follow the trials and tribulations of Wei and his team over at http://comefortheride.com/. Of course if you're in the market for a car, you should include http://www.easyautosales.com as one the websites that you visit.
Congrats Wei, Way to go all out.
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