Today is 5 years since the first release of Open Classifieds.
Time went really fast from the past years, I was just 24 and with hair when I started this project.
Stats after five years:
290,170 downloads (approx, since we didn’t have a reliable way of counting till now)
15354 sites using it (approx, doesn’t count Installatron and Softaculous)
17488 email newsletter subscribers
1320 paid customers
26 translations
96K unique monthly visits
Version 2.1.4 (2.1.5 coming soon)
Company established in Dec 2012.
Thanks to
3 employees + 2 old employees + 7 freelancers + 6 sponsors + 7 coders + 29 translators + 11 collaborators + tumanitas.com for their offices and collaboration and all of our users’ support and nice words.
Here is a glimpse on those past 5 years for Open Classifieds:
History
2009-03-28 – First public post about OC.
2009-04-16 – First beta release 0.8 and creation of project at Source Forge.
2009-05-14 – Open Classifieds 1.0 stable launched, with custom themes for first time.
2009-05-23 – Open Classifieds 1.1 launched, some new themes and small fixes.
2009-06-13 – Open-Classifieds.com domain registered and new site, we release the WP theme as GPL.
2009-06-20 – 1.2 released, some services launched. Installation and license removal.
2009-07-15 – 1.3 released, small fixes.
2009-09-05 – 1.4 Released, appears for first time the dynamic widgets.
2009-10-26 Open Classifieds 1.5 Released, first time with installation!
2009-10-11 – First mobile theme released.
2009-10-31 – PHP Barcelona Conference 2009, 4500 downloads!
2009-12-16 – First draft for future 2.0 version.
2010-02-07 – Open Classifieds 1.6 Released
2010-03-24 – Open Classifieds chosen for Campus Party Europe 2010
2010-04-16 – First Birthday 16.000 Downloads!!
2010-06-25 – Open Classifieds 1.7 released, new default theme wpClassifieds
2010-07-02 – First “professional” product and first clients!
2010-07-15 – Ocaku.com was born to create a search engine for classifieds sites.
2010-09-16 – Open Classifieds available in Softaculous.
2011-01-22 – wpClassifieds – Free theme for WordPress based on OC 1.5, by Oliver. Deprecated.
2011-01-22 – 2011-11-15 – Not much happening small releases.
2011-11-15 – We asked help to develop 2.0 and I started working on it. No one helped :(
2011-11-15 to 2012-08-05 – Small releases of 1.7.X working on 1.8.X, Mayank was hired to help me.
2012-08-05 – Released Open Classifieds 1.8, with loads of improvements and using Twitter Bootstrap.
2012-12-03 – We start to get a bit more of traction and I hire Slobodan to help me develop 2.0.
2012-12-23 – Open Classifieds LTD established, big changes are coming…
2013-04-28 – 2.1 Beta 1 launched
2013-05-13 – Ewa joins the team as an intern to help us release OC 2.0
2013-06-31 – Open Classifieds 2.0 Launched!!! with new website design.
2013-10-11 – Release 2.0.7, with custom fields.
2013-11-08 – We launched open-eshop.com and started selling our items from our market.
2013-12-06 – Installatron Integrates Open Classifieds Classifieds Management
2013-12-19 – Kinan Hamwi joins Open Classifieds team.
2013-12-26 – Open Classifieds 2.1. launched with custom fields per category, social login, bootstrap 3. etc..
2014-01-23 – Improving our support, creating more how tos etc…
2014-01-26 – Open Classifieds, 10 Core Values.
2014-02-03 – How Open Classifieds makes money?.
2014-03-26 – Latest Open Classifieds release 2.1.4.
It has been a great journey with many more possibilities of what may come in the future, and I would like to thank all of you for being part of this.
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