PlentyOfFish.com – One Man + One Language + Three Servers = Multi-Millionaire

T.J. Mininday | Sep 27, 2007 | View Comments


Everyday, thousands of new bloggers fire up new blogs with aspirations of millions of dollars and little work at home.

They’ve read the latest from our good friend Everton Blair, the 17 year old .COM millionaire, or the out of work ASP programmer with a simple idea and a lot of time.

What did Ben Affleck say in Boiler Room?

“You become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within three years. I’m gonna repeat that -- you will make a million dollars.”

Well, Markus Frind of PlentyOfFish.com has done exactly that and then some. The difference is, he didn’t do it illegally, he did it alone, with just one programming language, three servers, and whole lot of help from the creators of ASP.net, Microsoft. Here is a short video, from American TV, on the largest ‘one manned’ website in the world.

What is surprising to me, is that Microsoft isn’t touting this guy more. He is surprising not only the ASP community, but the entire programming community in general. He is raking in, rumor has it, $5,000,000+ in yearly revenue, he works on the site less then 2hrs/day and he gets, according to him, updwards of 1 Billion page views/month.

While much larger pay sites, such as Match.com or Eharmony.com are setting up hundreds of servers, paying hundreds of staff and forcing people to pay at minimum $30.00/month, PlentyOfFish.com has done all of this for FREE, with no staff and a lot of help from Google Adsense. Truly a prime example of success in this Web 2.0 world.

What are your thoughts of Markus’s success? Anybody who isn’t jealous of his success?


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About the Author: Hi, my name is T.J. and I am a writer for not only ConnectedInternet, but also www.thewindowsfix.com. I work in the IT Field, in consulting and IT management, but also thoroughly enjoy reading, researching and listening to Technology news. I hope I can bring loads of good information and discussion worthy topics to the great blog that Everton has put together here.Click here to contact me

  • Just goes to show that the geeks shall inherit the earth ;P
  • Ironic - he's a millionaire so I bet HE doesn't have a problem getting a date!
  • Thats quite a lot of money.I read about you also Everton and your money making experiences with blogging.Just wish you both great success in the future to come.
    Jammy
  • He is just another inspiration for us all. I would not say I am jealous, more like envious. But then again I am envious of this site too if it makes 10k a month.


    So, true, why do you think I wanted to join Everton's team so bad. He's really the only reason I got back into blogging.
  • Mortgage Guy
    He is just another inspiration for us all. I would not say I am jealous, more like envious. But then again I am envious of this site too if it makes 10k a month. :P
  • that guy is a regular member at dp i heard about him 3 months ago ..he has worked very very hard to reach at that point..
  • that's hard to believe....
  • Thats what i call a success.I have read all about everton and now i was equally happy to read about plenty of fish.It seems the simpler and no fuss sites do make the top nowadays.All the best
    Cheers
    Abhishek
  • Interesting little story. I don’t see how he doesn’t get flooded with emails, etc.
  • nowadays people are really finding simplest way to success... :)
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