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.

32,000 downloads, and another post

Hello there,

Yes, about 6 months later, the milestone has been reached, and now it seems like there's a healthy community of transposh users. Lots have changed in the plugin and the code is constantly improving (although not as fast as I hoped, maybe I should hope for no progress and be positivly surprised at the 64k post).

So far the revenue model has proved useless, and the total income is below $10. Many users decide to either keep the links (thanks guys). Write their own widget, or simply have no ads. All of which I am happy with. The downside of this is that no money makes progress slower, and I hope that it will change in the coming months.

On other fronts, a personal issue I had has slowed development considerably for the last few months, this has now passed ( ;( ) so now I have more time for the project, and I am using it to think of the coming directions. One of the decisions was to do a full trac scan and create meaningful milestones. This is work in progress, but I really enjoy it as there's so much information and directions in there that are so exciting, I wish I could implement each and every request but I am trying to keep things in focus.

What will the next version bring? The next major will hopefully be a UI redesign, with many of the tickets on the trac closing there, this milestone is marked as 0.7 and will be the best milestone to date. Any ideas, bugs, money will be happily accepted.

Don't worry, be happy now.

4,000 downloads

I'll be reporting in multiples, so don't worry - next time is 8,000. It took two more months to get to 4,000 downloads yesterday. There have not so many releases in between, and the current rate seems to be somewhere around 20 new downloaders a day. The rating on the wordpress site has improved as I guess a few users probably read the how to donate section (mainly - vote your opinion of the project). I hope that as the summer vacation comes to an end, the release train will be back on track and that the new goal will be reached faster.

1,000 downloads milestone

Today marks the 1,000 downloads mark for the Transposh wordpress plugin. Since the 0.2.0 release things have indeed started to move a bit faster.
However I did discover (yet again) a regression bug that crept back into my code.
I am staring the code for the client side of things, if this blog gives you weird alerts and errors, this is me at work :)
The google numbers now stand at 64,700 for the transposh search, the numbers were double that figure last week, and I guess they'll keep growing soon. Anyhow its much better than the 5 results transposh had before we started working :)