The 64,000

Running posts at the rate of exponential growth in the number of downloads seemed like a good idea at the time, however - this time it took 8.75 months to double the number of downloads again and to reach the 64,000 goal.

The community of users is constantly growing, and we would have made more released of the plugin in the near future had we not been working our off, on getting the proxy code out, you can notice the small translation widget on the side of this blog, which might actually lead you to the alpha pages of the service.

We'll probably do some more posts here and on our facebook page, probably before reaching the 128,000 goal, which will hopefully take less time this time.

We will finish with a small poem for our dedicated readers:

grow, grow, grow you project

make it support the stream

happily happily happily

this is not a dream.

16,000 downloads post

Yes, promised a post at 16k, and here it comes. This time it took 4 and a half months to get to this milestone. With the current rate of growth, it will take 6 months more to get to the 32k milestone.
The product is beginning to shape up nicely, becoming better and better, and I am starting to think about if this will ever be able to grow into a service that is monetized. I have received many offers for donation in exchange to the backlink removal. I am not going in that direction, as this will not be substantial and will not make a living of this. The idea is to provide a real value added to bloggers (and/or readers) so that they will be happy to purchase this service. A few ideas exist, but nothing has not hit me as the holy grail yet, if any reader have his own set of ideas, this would be something I would love to hear.
Next up is more, yes, more of everything. Better integration with wordpress will be coming soon, including themes and comment integrations. I also hope that we'll be able to provide support for third party widgets and support another CMS besides wordpress in the coming future. The features continue to creep in as well, and the improved interface for translators will be the main goal there.
We are more "social" than before, you can follow us on twitter, facebook and here too. Show your support, it helps.