Like most developers, I had a habit of running a speed test whenever my connection felt slow — then forgetting the result five minutes later. There was no way to look back and say "my speed has been consistently dropping every evening for two weeks."
I wanted something that would run quietly in the background, measure my speed automatically, and give me a clean dashboard to review trends over time — without me having to do anything.
I built the first version of the desktop agent in a weekend. It was rough, but it worked. After a few months of using it myself and sharing it with friends, I turned it into a proper product with a cloud backend, a polished dashboard, and a Pro tier to keep the servers running.
Net Speed Cloud is still a one-person project. Every feature, every line of code, and every support reply comes from me personally. That means slower releases — but it also means every decision is made with the user in mind, not a boardroom.