The Creators

Jacob Wright (jacwright.com) lives in Lehi Utah. He currently works full-time for mediaRAIN, a web development and marketing firm in Orem Utah. He is currently developing musicRAIN, an online music notation product which allows publishers to sell their music online and consumers to view, hear, transpose, and print the music. Jacob has a wife, a 2-year old daughter, and a son ready to be born any minute. He has a neglected blog that he always means to write more on at jacwright.com. He shortens his name sometimes to Jac, pronounced Jake.

Derek Andriesian lives in Salt Lake City Utah, He works at home in his underwear selling ringtones to 16yr olds.

Randall Wright is the father of Jacob. He is a C and Pascal programmer working for Accountix in Orem Utah. He lives in Highland with 3 sons still at home. He writes in his spare time and is the published author of 3 books. He is having fun writing extensions for Internet Explorer.

Josh Buhler is a friend of Jacob and Derek. He is a great guy with a great blog at joshbuhler.com. He is the Mac user of the group (though others might like to try when they get to it) and is working on the Safari extension. He lives in Riverton Utah with his wife and a cat who keeps them both busy chasing around. Josh also works at mediaRAIN.

The Creation

MyStickies was originally Derek's idea. He reads a lot of blogs and has a knack for forgetting where he read something he really liked. He mentioned it would be really cool to be able to put sticky notes on your web pages. After discussing it with Jacob a bit, Jacob was convinced that the idea was not something only Derek would want. Jacob offered the name of MyStickies to Derek for approval and the domain name was purchased quickly. They began planning and prototyping.

There were many changes along the way to make MyStickies as useful as possible. The browser extension became the favored method because it would allow for a user to get their notes instantaneously without needing to load up a bookmarklet on every page. A web-based account was decided on so that you might use and access your notes from your computer, your buddies computer, the public libraries computer, or anywhere you went.

The two worked on it part-time, starting a few things over a few times to get things right. Finally they felt it was good enough to launch January 20, 2006. They continue to work on it part-time, hoping to be able to find a way for MyStickies to pay for itself so they don't have to sell the farm to pay for server costs.