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The Hockey Stick Is Real: 75K Downloads and a Growth Curve That Won't Quit

· 4 min read
Stephan Janssen
Stephan Janssen
Creator of DevoxxGenie

Every so often you glance at the dashboards and the numbers make you stop and just... smile. This is one of those weeks. DevoxxGenie has crossed 75,000 downloads on the JetBrains Marketplace, and the active-user curve has gone from a gentle slope to a proper hockey stick. Thank you, all of you. 🙏

75,013 downloads and counting​

DevoxxGenie downloads on the JetBrains Marketplace, showing a rising monthly trend over the past year

Straight from the JetBrains Marketplace analytics: 75,013 total downloads, with 2,416 already this month. But the total isn't the interesting part, the shape is.

Look at the unique-downloads trend across the past year:

  • The back half of 2025 bounced around modestly, dipping to a quiet low of under 1,000 in November.
  • Then December turned the corner, and 2026 has climbed almost every single month: March, April, May all comfortably above 3,000.
  • June was the biggest month yet, at roughly 4,550 unique downloads, the tallest bar on the chart.

That's not a spike from a single Hacker News moment. It's a steady, compounding climb, which is exactly the pattern you want to see: people finding the plugin, sticking with it, and telling others.

Active users on a true hockey-stick curve​

DevoxxGenie active users trend climbing steeply through 2026

The engagement side tells the same story, only louder. Across the period, DevoxxGenie counted 91.6K active users, 26K views, and a hefty 143K events. But zoom into the Trend of Active users line and the story becomes unmistakable:

  • Practically flat from September 2025 through February 2026.
  • A clear inflection around March 2026, where the line lifts off the floor.
  • A steep, accelerating climb through spring, peaking near 8,000 active users by late June and July.

That March inflection isn't a coincidence. It lines up with a run of releases that changed what the plugin is: agent mode, MCP support, RAG and semantic search, CLI and ACP runners, persistent memory, and most recently visible reasoning. Ship features people actually want, and the curve bends.

Why this matters (beyond the vanity)​

Numbers on a dashboard are fun, but the reason they matter is what they represent:

  • A local-first bet that's paying off. As the earlier analytics deep-dive showed, the overwhelming majority of usage runs on local models via Ollama, LMStudio, and CustomOpenAI. Growth like this says private, on-your-own-hardware AI coding isn't a niche, it's what a lot of developers genuinely prefer.
  • Momentum for an open-source project. DevoxxGenie is open source on GitHub. Every download and active session is a signal that the roadmap is heading the right way, and fuel to keep going.
  • A community, not just a counter. Behind 91.6K active users are real developers filing issues, suggesting features, and starring the repo. That feedback loop is why the March-onward features landed as well as they did.

Thank you 🙏​

If you're one of those 75,013 downloads or somewhere in that climbing active-user line: thank you. You turned a Devoxx side project into something that runs in tens of thousands of editors every month.

The curve is pointing up and to the right, and there's a lot more coming. If you haven't tried the recent additions yet, now's a great time to install or update DevoxxGenie, flip on agent mode, and see what the fuss is about.

Onward. 🚀