Launch was a nightmare!
Quite literally: I posted before bed, then edited my post to say we are sorry about the PDF when I realized a new feature added last week seem to have killed the automatic PDF making. Oops moment, but I felt bad about deleting the post. And I was afraid I would see no response when I wake up.
Then had nightmare about broken features, and now I wake up and we are on the first page!! So it's a true nightmare :-)
Much honored to be talking with the CoinGecko founder, and that you like what we did!
On the FAQ, we tried to explain in more details why we did things differently. We want to focus on other things that seem neglected by other sites. Cryptomarketplot was made because there was nothing much like what we wanted.
For example, the website should to work when used with anything, and it should be very fast even if you do not have a fast internet connection. And we want to see the graphs, and the numbers, with minimal clutter. So we made the product that we wanted.
Some of the wants are technical: try to open the website with links in a Linux terminal, it still works. Try to read it on 3G, it is still fast. 1996 is very proud!
Some wants are harder to explain: we do not want people to get scammed. We do not like marketcap because it's an easy way to fool people. But it can turned into a tool to warn people that a coin which jumped from spot #1000 to say #19 in about 3 days may be suspicious!
Many of our wants are philosophical like that. We want to find clients to be profitable, but also we do not want ads or tracking visitors, now or ever. We do not want to restrict freedom of anyone, so no API key, no license. You buy the data, it's yours.
And we accept donations to people who share that spirit.