Hello Vladimir. How did you first felt when Leaflet became so big that it is an industry standard? Was growing to that size slow or was it exponential?
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It was pretty sudden — I never expected it to get that big. This was my first ever open source project, and I still remember how I awe-struck I was when it got adopted by Foursquare (first major user) a few months after the public release.
Here's a chart of monthly leafletjs.com users — so mostly steady growth, but with some sudden bumps (e.g. by being featured on the frontpage of Hackernews, etc.):
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Hello Vladimir. How did you first felt when Leaflet became so big that it is an industry standard? Was growing to that size slow or was it exponential?
It was pretty sudden — I never expected it to get that big. This was my first ever open source project, and I still remember how I awe-struck I was when it got adopted by Foursquare (first major user) a few months after the public release.
Here's a chart of monthly leafletjs.com users — so mostly steady growth, but with some sudden bumps (e.g. by being featured on the frontpage of Hackernews, etc.):