A Bit About Me

I’m an Australian Entrepreneur preparing for a huge move/adventure to The

United States as I grow Pen.io from a weekend idea to successful startup.  I’m a huge fan of minimalism.  I try and apply simplicity to all my design work as well as living a minimalist lifestyle.  When I’m not designing or messing around with code, i’m thinking about design and messing around with code.

Press and Interviews

Techcrunch: Pen.io Is An Easy Way to Share Your Drafts
Business Insider: Five Launch Startups You Will Hear About
ABC: Launch Tech Inventors’ Expo: And the Winner Is
TheNextWeb: A Quick, Simple, Elegant Way to Publish Text on the Web
Lifehacker: PenZen Gives You Truly Distraction Free Writing
FuelYourWriting: Publish & Share Anything Online, Fast!
Web.AppStorm: Single Purpose Apps
Webification: Interview – Anthony Feint, Founder Pen.io
Launch.is: Launch 008
The Escapist: How to Launch a Startup with Anthony Feint

My Story

It was January 2011 – just another year.  I had the coming year all planned out.  I would continue living off the revenue I had slowly built up from a number of web apps I had running.  None of these web apps were particularly popular, but they made enough for a young, single guy to get by.   I had plans to spend the coming year in Thailand.  Oh how plans can change.

Then one weekend, I had an idea for a new app.  I didn’t think it to be particularly standout at the time.  But after putting it together in a week, something about this app was different.  This app was Pen.io.

The next few months of my life were surreal.  I still haven’t been able to take anything in.  From hopping on a plane, after getting an email from Jason Calacanis inviting me to Launch, or winning the design award….at Launch all the way to signing documents as the new CEO at Pen.io Inc – crazy.

Photo By: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyeung808/

But the craziness didn’t end there.  No Pen.io kept on growing.  In June 2011 it received 3.3 million visitors (where the hell did they come from?) and in July…well July is going to be even bigger.

In a few months I went from being just some kid building web apps in his bedroom to CEO of Pen.io Inc.

This is just the beginning of the story.  I don’t want things to settle down.  I’m quite ok with the craziness.  If you’d like to learn more about Pen.io get in touch at anthony@feint.me.  Or, if you’d like to work for Pen.io and live the United States email jobs@feint.me

Let’s Get in Touch

Questions, suggestions, just wanting to talk about startups?  Let’s talk:

Email: anthony@feint.me
Skype: ezyweb9
Twitter: feint
Facebook: feint