We started working on Hummingbird slightly over a year ago and have grown quite a bit since then. We have a total of 50,000 registered users and ~30% MAU.
We decided to open-source it because we don’t always have the time we would like to work on it after putting in hours at work/school, and we had a lot of our users interested in helping out. We also found that working out in the open is a lot more fun!
We have a fairly modern stack, the backend uses Rails, Postgres and Redis. Front-end is a client-side application written using Ember. (Mostly — there are legacy pages still rendered using Rails and some performance-sensitive parts that use React.)
The current incumbent in this niche is a website called MyAnimeList (myanimelist.net) which has upwards of 2 million registered users. Considering it looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005 we strongly feel this niche deserves better.
We decided to open-source it because we don’t always have the time we would like to work on it after putting in hours at work/school, and we had a lot of our users interested in helping out. We also found that working out in the open is a lot more fun!
We have a fairly modern stack, the backend uses Rails, Postgres and Redis. Front-end is a client-side application written using Ember. (Mostly — there are legacy pages still rendered using Rails and some performance-sensitive parts that use React.)
The current incumbent in this niche is a website called MyAnimeList (myanimelist.net) which has upwards of 2 million registered users. Considering it looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005 we strongly feel this niche deserves better.
Please let us know what you think!