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Instagram, the now famous photo sharing service, hasn't always been the successful company that it is today. Instagram we know and love started as a completely different project designed to teach Kevin Systrom, ... some coding skills. After working on the app in the evenings and at weekends, Systrom had a prototype to share among his friends. The prototype convinced the potential investors to meet seriously to talk about the future app and within two weeks of that meeting Systrom had raised $500,000 in funding and gave up his job
... Mike Krieger, the other co-founder of Instagram, and Systrom weren't friends ... and would exchange hints and tips when they saw each other. With a solid idea and the money in place, Krieger got aboard the idea of trying to turn the app into a real business. The founders decided that it had too much functionality and that it felt cluttered. They made up their minds to start over ... It was a decision that would see it rocket to success in a little over two years. According to Systrom, Krieger likes to say that Instagram only took eight weeks to ship and build, but was a product of over a year of work. When Instagram was released in 2010, it went from a handful of users \(friends and early testers, mostly\)
... . By December 2010, Instagram had more than one million users. Over the course of the next two years the popularity of the service continued to grow and the Instagram team continued to add features
... among others. Today, while other services are fighting for popularity, Instagram remains the number one app for sharing photos and communication.