Hi.

RHW here,

I'm leaving, permanently.

No, I'm not killing myself.

I started making websites in late 2023 because I saw Cool Math Games and thought, "I could make that." So I made LupineVault. I built it with a friend I met online, and at first it only had a small community, mostly me and my friends.

A few months later, I checked Google Analytics.

2 million users. In one month.

LupineVault had somehow exploded through word of mouth, despite being simple and honestly pretty underdeveloped. I let my friend know immediately, and we started maintaining and updating it.

Eventually it grew to nearly 7 million users before I shut it down in late 2024 for personal reasons.

After that, I never really captured the same success again. I chased it through different projects and even some pretty questionable grey-web communities. Somewhere along the way I convinced myself I was "RHW, the creator of LupineVault."

It never really satisfied anything.

During all of this I started countless side projects, though only a few ever went anywhere.

Not everything was bad, though.

SimpleTools was recognized by Hack Club as an "Essential", which can help with certain scholarships. Another project, SPLASH, was incredibly fun to run and honestly had one of the best communities of any UBG website.

Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way.

Shoutouts to InfinityLoop, Benrogo, Evicly, Technonyte, x8r, Bliss, Divide, and everyone in UBGM.

ANYWAYS......

I'll be retiring the RHW persona, along with all of the emails, phone numbers (Google Voice makes that easy), and accounts associated with it, except for a few personal things (like my IoT GitHub repository for my Raspberry Pi).

If you know me well enough, you already have my phone number. If not, just DM me and I'll happily give you another way to stay in touch.

It was fun.

Thanks. :)