Why did I make this website? Here are a few partial answers.
I thought it would be cool to make a website
Remember when we were kids and no one had really figured out the internet? We made weird screen names and forums without much of a purpose. I feel like social media mostly replaced that. I was fine with it for a while, but I haven’t used social media much in about a decade. I had been casually thinking about doing this for a few years, but felt inspired recently to try it during a longer work break.
I didn’t like my internet identity/”branding”
I have several social media pages, but they don’t feel like mine. Some of them use my real name and link to people I used to know. The rest use an old screen name that carried forward an inside joke from late adolescence which I had trouble explaining to anyone who asked. The accidental confusion there was occasionally fun, but it didn’t feel like something deliberate that I had orchestrated.
I needed a unique identity for a web domain
That’s not strictly true, but if you want a *.com one, you have to dodge hundreds of website names. This served as an arbitrary but convenient filter to pass to make sure I had come up with something that would be sufficiently mine. There were many other numbers in front of “ducks.com”, but after several minutes of consideration, I confidently believe that this is the most clever number of ducks.
So… there’s not really much of a purpose at all right now. But if I ever want to do something more purposeful on the internet, having this already in place will be an advantage. By lowering the future barriers to entry, it’s more likely that I would actually make the effort, instead of thinking about it for a few seconds before tapping the next video thumbnail.