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uh we hired uh one of my friends who was also interested in working as a he and he helped us build like the initial thing but he joined uh so it was four and then we convinced one of our uh like a really good designer that we would always want to work with to join us as well uh and that was after we launched so that was more like in the fall but yeah so we we launched and the growth was really good like immediately it was better than anything that we'd ever done but by december we hit uh 650 000 monthly actives and at that point we're like wow this is great
Back in the fall, we were kind of telling people our goal was to hit 1 million by early next year.
Everyone thought we were crazy.
That was like, oh, okay, sure.
Then in January, we did 2.5 million monthly actives.
So we went from 650 to 2.5.
Last month, we're at 6.5.
I think this month, we're still halfway into the month, so I'm not sure, maybe close to eight.
Our next goal milestone was 10.
Yeah, so having been at DevTools for a while, we knew that in January, there's always a bump because I think people take time to learn new things in December with the time off and they have time to try new stuff.
So what we typically see is we see a dip into the holidays and like a giant spike in the first week back.
For this, we saw growth into the holidays, which we've never seen with any other product before.
So like despite the fact that people were off, it was higher usage than ever.
And then January came around and Anthropic helped us a lot by...
you know they like wanted to ban anthropic subscriptions in open code uh that blew up into like a huge thing like we barely even commented on that but like just the user base was so upset anthropic accidentally put us and them in like the same sentence which we don't deserve because they're a much bigger more successful company but
That week, that kind of happened by accident, and that spiked our numbers like crazy.
The thing with them is they're kind of new to working with developers, right?
it's okay to do things like like of course you need to do what you need to do to make your business sustainable it's totally fine but randomly dropping a block
at night, that just sets you up for like people to hate you.