About CompassionPit

The purpose of CompassionPit is to alleviate a specific kind of burden: to allow you to vent about something weighing you down without fear of it being used against you in the future. I started it because I wanted it for myself and I realized how many people it would help. We're all more similar than we are different.

The site went up in August 2010.

About Me

My name is Zachary Burt. I started a company called Awesomeness Reminders.

You can follow me on Twitter (@zburt). I tweet a lot of stream of consciousness thoughts though, so if you can't handle it feel free to just follow (@CompassionPit).

Credit

Grant contributed the beautiful design. He is available for freelance work.

Cody Brocious coded the first version of CompassionPit and used python

Yogi Patel implemented a rewrite of CompassionPit using the node.js server-side javascript framework, which is the basis for our stability

Cameron Knight did extensive engineering of the CompassionPit architecture and can be trusted to write code

Source Code

The server powering the site is written in Node.js and I have released the source code for free. Take a look: https://github.com/zackster/CompassionPit--Node-/.