In the spirit of open source, we’re proud to share some 2023 milestones! This year marked a year of open source growth and partnerships. To name a few highlights, Bubble Tea, our TUI framework, crossed 20,000 GitHub stars, we spoke at GitHub Universe, and we announced a $6 million round of funding.
Here’s what that growth looks like in numbers:
Hot partnerships
We love working with other companies who share a similar passion for creative, powerful, developer tooling. In the summer, we launched Pop, in collaboration with Resend, to enable sending emails from the terminal. Shortly thereafter we worked with Tailscale to expose SSH endpoints on users’ Tailnets via Wish, our SSH framework, and Wishlist, our SSH host directory. We also worked with CockRoachDB to help make their interactive SQL Shell more powerful via Bubble Tea.
New launches and open source adoption in industry
We launched four new products this year:
- Huh: a tool for building on the command line, with first-class support for screen readers
- Mods: a tool that brings LLMs to the command line in a powerful, native way (pipes!)
- Pop: a tool for sending emails from the terminal, built in collaboration with Resend
- Log: the most bullet-proof, glamourous logger you’ve ever seen
Launch expanded our ability to reach new organizations and increase open source adoption. Some of our favorite new products built with Charm technology are Pulumi ESC, Datadog Agent, a daemon for collecting events and metrics and sending them back to the Datadog mothership, and Truffle Security, who announced an upgraded Trufflehog CLI at the Black Hat Conference.
Bubble Tea continues to be our most popular library. There are 4,487 Bubble Tea apps built to date, representing 119% growth compared to January this year. And Glow, our glamorous markdown reading tool, continues to be shared with over 53,000 users, a 55% increase since the beginning of 2023.
Connecting with the community
Our community continues to be our pride and joy. We ended 2022 at 65,000 GitHub stars. To date, we just crossed 95,000 GitHub stars! Most importantly, we’ve continued to invest in engaging with our community online, which saw a record 20% monthly increase across Twitter, YouTube, Discord, Mastodon, Instagram. Our YouTube audience has more than doubled from that of last year, with 5,800+ subscribers, racking over 243,000 views.
This month, we organized our first large community meetup in
collaboration with GitHub. Taking over GitHub’s HQ, we hosted 100+ developers,
founders, open source enthusiasts with Mario Kart, Ping Pong and Piñata-busting.
2023 has been so, so fun. Here’s to 2024!