I don't often get a chance to write about a startup from my home country (Belgium) that I'm super excited about, so consider me a happy camper. Meet CheckThis.com (http://checkthis.com/), a new micro-publishing service that lets you create and share a single, good-looking Web page in mere seconds.
CheckThis is designed for people who need a little more space than a tweet but don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a new blog. In literally instants, you can use CheckThis to create a stand-alone page to sell your bike, hire a new developer for your startup, tell people what you've been up to today, set up a really quick poll, share an Instragram or Flickr photo, a party invitation with a map, a Vimeo video or whatever other casual need you might have. Quick, simple, beautiful.
CheckThis (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/checkthis) creator Frédéric della Faille (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/frdric-della-faille) describes the service as 'between nothing and a blog' and also 'tweets with attachments', both of which are decent ways to illustrate what CheckThis is about.
Ultimately, his goal was to create a publishing tool that helps people do things online that usually take some time (like selling a product, posting a recruitment ad and whatnot) and make the experience as rapid and smooth as posting a status update on Twitter (http://crunchbase.com/company/twitter) or Facebook (http://crunchbase.com/company/facebook), no registration required.
Without any marketing, apart from della Faille telling some of his friends about the tool, CheckThis users have created more than 10,000 personalized pages in the past 3 months, including this great one entitled People with Lana Del Rey lips (http://checkthis.com/peoplewithlanadelreylips). So what do you want to do?
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