By the end of this year we'll serve around 7m "unique visitors" per month and have ~450k registered users—meaning we'll be serving a bigger and bigger chunk of the whole software world.
And in general we expect that progress to continue until we reach "full saturation" the way some other platforms have in our industry.
But growth wouldn't be very useful if we didn't evolve to meet the needs of a bigger and bigger community. By the end of the year I hope we have really sewn together a lot of UX concerns which have been around on the site for a long time. We have a few small launches coming up but mostly want to simplify and stabilize the experience.
We went open source last August and one thing we want to have kicked off by the end of this year is delivering on the promise of making it possible to stand up "separate, but compatible communities" using our software. We'll have a lot more info on that coming up, but we really don't want to grow and grow and grow until we are a monolithic community which owns everyone's data. We want to purposefully reduce our role as central data owner and become a bit more decentralized.
Besides tastefully evolving our current business models with sponsors, and listings etc. we want to make our business model ultimately center around hosting communities on our software where we can provide a benefit without owning everybody's data. Within five years hopefully we've accomplished our goal of serving many communities we don't "own" instead of "owning" everything. dev.to itself is likely fairly big in this scenario but we don't want to grow and grow and grow until we consume everything.
The other day, I saw someone posted a link of site devtomanager.com. My initial reaction seeing it - wow, someone has created an instance of dev.to website ...? I wonder if this already happening and we have list of sites running dev.to code?
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By the end of this year we'll serve around 7m "unique visitors" per month and have ~450k registered users—meaning we'll be serving a bigger and bigger chunk of the whole software world.
And in general we expect that progress to continue until we reach "full saturation" the way some other platforms have in our industry.
But growth wouldn't be very useful if we didn't evolve to meet the needs of a bigger and bigger community. By the end of the year I hope we have really sewn together a lot of UX concerns which have been around on the site for a long time. We have a few small launches coming up but mostly want to simplify and stabilize the experience.
We went open source last August and one thing we want to have kicked off by the end of this year is delivering on the promise of making it possible to stand up "separate, but compatible communities" using our software. We'll have a lot more info on that coming up, but we really don't want to grow and grow and grow until we are a monolithic community which owns everyone's data. We want to purposefully reduce our role as central data owner and become a bit more decentralized.
Besides tastefully evolving our current business models with sponsors, and listings etc. we want to make our business model ultimately center around hosting communities on our software where we can provide a benefit without owning everybody's data. Within five years hopefully we've accomplished our goal of serving many communities we don't "own" instead of "owning" everything. dev.to itself is likely fairly big in this scenario but we don't want to grow and grow and grow until we consume everything.
The other day, I saw someone posted a link of site devtomanager.com. My initial reaction seeing it - wow, someone has created an instance of dev.to website ...? I wonder if this already happening and we have list of sites running dev.to code?