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

· 4 min read
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. 🙏

What 18,000 Events Tell Us About How You Use DevoxxGenie

· 6 min read
Stephan Janssen
Creator of DevoxxGenie

DevoxxGenie just passed a milestone worth celebrating: more than 72,000 downloads, and in this month alone 29,330 active users firing up the plugin inside IntelliJ IDEA. Thank you. Genuinely.

A smaller, opt-in slice of those users also share anonymous usage analytics. No prompts, no code, no file contents, no personal data, just coarse aggregated signals about which features get enabled, which providers get used, and which models get picked. The goal is simple: stop guessing about what matters and start building for how people actually work.

Even from that opted-in subset, more than 18,000 telemetry events over the past month paint a remarkably clear picture. A few of the patterns surprised me. Here is the story the data tells.