http://blog.querystorm.com/index.php/2018/04/04/whynow/

A few years ago, I set out to build a small Excel plugin to help out my girlfriend at the time. I ended up building a full-blown IDE over the course of four years and spent the winter in Poland in a startup accelerator.

How did this happen? As with many great endeavors of man, this one also started in order to impress a girl.