Building For Their Future

ByTopher DeRosia

HeroPress was inspired by a photo.

Dave (who bootstrapped the project) gave me one mandate: “I’m very open to whatever you make, but whatever it is, in some way I want it to help this child”. And he sent the following photo.

Child being bathed in an alley in Kolkata

Now that’s a stock photo, you can find it all over the web. We’ll never know who that specific kid is, but the point was that there are millions of kids like that in India, and Dave wanted to give a boost to as many of them as we could. Ever since then, HeroPress has been deeply tied to India.

Recently I was telling this story to Nathan Wrigley on the WPBuilds Podcast. I was talking about my concern for the WordPress community in these days of difficulty. Many many Indians have gotten their start in computing in their early teens, on their own computer, or a borrowed one, or even on just a phone.

While we were talking I realized, if this kid were about 3-5 years old when the photo was taken, approximately 10 years ago when HeroPress started, it’s entirely possible he’s 13-15 years old now, and could very well be learning about WordPress. And it’s entirely possible HeroPress has helped him.

We’ll never know of course, but can say for a certainty that HeroPress has helped people LIKE him.

Mission accomplished Dave.

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