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Discussion on: I'm an open source enthusiast at Mapbox, the creator of Leaflet and 40+ other JS libraries, and a rock musician. AMA!

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Mac Siri

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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Vladimir Agafonkin

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.):