Founder Satya Witoelar states as he and co-developers Fajar Budiprasetyo, Leo Laksmana, and Daniel Armanto developed the site, they took inspiration from a variety of competing foreign social networks, including Plurk, Twitter, Lifestream, and Brightkite.
Lifestreaming, "a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life", coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter.