How much time did it take to create mIRC?
In the beginning, I had to spend fifteen to twenty hours a day, seven days a week, adding features, fixing bugs, and replying to emails just to keep up with the momentum of interest that mIRC had generated. It was an exciting, challenging, and exhausting (if not super-human) pace of development that continued for around a decade. Nowadays I have less stamina – I now only work at “heroic pace” when I’m called to save the planet from imminent destruction.