Twelve years ago I wrote a small plugin (Duplicate Post) for a project of mine, and I put it on WordPress.org.
Slowly but steadily, it grew to pass 3 million active installations and it has become one of the most popular free plugins. And all that in spite of huge mistakes, months of neglect, epic fails and (obviously) bugs.
A brief history of what I learnt about WordPress, its amazing community and the power of sharing.