My Journey With Imposter Syndrome And The Realization That Set Me Free

It only took me 10 years

“A quote website?” I remember hearing from a friend who was well versed in website development. “Why would you create a quote website?”

This was back in 2010 when I was toying with the idea of MoveMe Quotes.

To paraphrase what he said after that: “Do you have any idea how many quotes and quote websites are out there? And how many of those websites already have thousands of quotes indexed with an established ranking on Google? It’s going to be incredibly hard to outperform them.”

And then the line that usually cripples already nervous, self-doubting creators: “Are you sure this is a good idea?”

He wasn’t wrong.

The prospect of collecting, indexing, and organizing a never-ending (and ever growing) list of quotes was a daunting and, in many ways, impossible task. What was the point?

Not to mention, this was something I was going to do in my down time. How was I going to compete with the already established sites who had devoted professionals working full-time on theirs?

Why go through all of the work if the work was just going to go unnoticed?