Numbers. Apr 22, 2022

One of my kids asked me yesterday how many sites I've built. Offhandedly I told her "500, maybe 1000? Not sure" and I wasn't sure. I'm still not, but I have a better idea now.

One of my kids asked me yesterday how many sites I've built. Offhandedly I told her "500, maybe 1000? Not sure" and I wasn't sure. I'm still not, but I have a better idea now.

I built my first site as a "professional" developer in 2003 (nearly 19 years ago!?!). It was an ecommerce site for a small local bead shop, built on ZenCart. Since then I've created hundreds of sites, a handful of mobile apps, a couple of desktop applications, and even a few games.

I didn't keep records of each project or a running tally - I wish I had! From the notes I do still have and general recollecting, here is a rough break down of what I've built online. I've absolutely missed some things. There are a handful of sites I remember building for one reason or another, but cannot recall the CMS or platform.

ECommerce Sites

  • 42 Shopify
  • 30 WooCommerce
  • 10 Bespoke
  • 9 BigCartel
  • 6 Magento
  • 5 ZenCart
  • 3 PrestaShop
  • 2 GoodBarry

CMS Sites

  • 360 WordPress
  • 80 Static Sites
  • 60 Joomla / Mambo
  • 15 Ghost
  • 10 Square Space
  • 10 Drupal
  • 8 Expression Engine
  • 3 ModX

Community

  • 18 PHPBB
  • 11 Vanilla
  • 7 Xoops

Bespoke Sites

  • 18 Meteor
  • 11 PHP
  • 6 Django
  • 3 Java
  • 2 C#

SaaS / PaaS Applications

  • 18 Node
  • 6 Meteor
  • 4 PHP

Mobile

  • 22 Unity Games
  • 9 React Native Apps
  • 4 Cordova Apps
  • 4 Corona SDK Games

Desktop

  • 5 Electron Apps
  • 4 Unity Games

Misc Projects

  • 2 Ouya Games
  • 1 PS Vita Game

Bonkers.