About CelicaHobby.com
CelicaHobby is a website for Celica Enthusiasts. We are a community of people who currently own or have owned Toyota Celicas. If you have any interest learning about the Celica, this is the place for you.
CelicaHobby opened in 2008, using the source code and information from EverythingCelica as a starting foundation. There was an enormous amount of valuable information contained in the EverythingCelica database and it would have been a complete waste to let it go unshared.
Although much of the current information and presentation is reminiscent of EverythingCelica, that is where the similarities end, and the distinction begins. Our community forums are focused towards creating and sharing information, less toward post-counts and dates of the post. If a topic was created a while ago, and there were unanswered questions in that topic, does it really matter when it was created? Your questions are still relevant and should be added to the topic. The primarily focus of CelicaHobby is all about sharing information and content about the Toyota Celica and related topics.
With that said, enjoy your time spent at CelicaHobby, contribute, discuss and make friends.
History
EverythingCelica was founded in May 2002 by Isaac DeCoursey. As the site grew bigger, so did my responsibilities, the events, the auto parts store and maintenance of the website.
I went from being a simple Celica enthusiast, to being an event coordinator & photographer, an html/php/sql programmer, setting up and maintaining a dedicated hosting server, running an aftermarket auto parts pickup, packaging and shipping company averaging fifty to a hundred orders every day, along with keeping up with the daily feedback emails from customers and casual website members... all the "fun stuff" that a larger company usually staffs many employees to maintain.
In Early 2005, I found that I didn't have enough time to add features or update the site's infrastructure to better deal with the traffic spikes, keep up with daily pickups, packaging and shipping demands, attend the Celica events and photograph them, and even check all of the unread emails for days on end (I did read each and every email that landed in my inbox)... all the usual day-to-day maintenance which EverythingCelica required.
In April of 2005, the load finally took its toll on me. Being too big for just a couple of people to run, but too small to hire the additional help it required, I tied up all of the loose ends by closing up shop and closing out/refunding all current orders. I then took on a normal "nine-to-five" day job.
It was extremely tough to quit working on something which I so thoroughly loved doing, but it was impossible to give it the incredible amount of maintenance and attention it needed. With the intended goals for CelicaHobby (outlined up top) as a new part-time arrangement, this seems to be like the perfect balance of continuing my professional career and spending more time on these projects which I really enjoy.
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