One year anniversary! *hurray*

Today one year ago I (Ola Sevandersson) released the first of the pixlr services, at that time I had been coding/designing for almost a year. All done in my spare time since I had a regular job as a product development mng for one of the largest social networks in Sweden.

The release was followed by these words in the blog:
"So it's sunday afternoon in Sweden and tomorrow I will let a few know about pixlr. I wonder what they will say about the result of from a years work and thousands of lines of code?"

Well I have to say that the "few" people i let know about the service grew to about 50.000 visitors in the FIRST two days .. quite a good release from my perspective .. Of course it was because it was featured in a couple of large tech-blogs (More on the first week)

Here is a graph of the growth of pixlr.com per month until today:

Solid climb :) Thanks to you all!

One of the key to success was that I didn't just focus on the English speaking part of the world but made it easy to translate the service and today pixlr is available in over 25 languages.

Visitors from Russia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Brazil, Sweden, Mexico, Germany is often seen on the site :)

The first version of the editor was pretty basic and lacked a lot of features, but continued development has added a lot of tools, adjustments and filters for you all to enjoy. The first version didn't even have Type tool and free transform, wild times ;)

Some other facts:

Firefox add-on (rel 9 dec 2008)
Over 50.000 downloads of the plugin.



Pixlr Express (rel 28 mar 2009)
Great for inclusion in other sites via the API



Pixlr on Twitter (9 nov 2009)
More then 1200 followers.



Pixlr facebook apps (rel 16 june 2009)
Edit your facebook images direct with pixlr editor and pixlr express



Be first!
Pixlr has always tried to move the line of how a application on the web behaves and performs, still the Pixlr editor is just 186 kb large and is one of the most advanced online editors out there. With features like open psd, white balance, tilt-shift filter, curves, levels, dodge, burn, brush editor and more.

Does it end here ..
Noooo, now we are looking forward on the year to come .. you will meet the pixlr products in several more of the largest sites of the world and you might even use our product without knowing :)

I can't say to much but more connections to your desktop are in the pipe as well for a new redone version of the editor. A bit more clean look and a lot of optimization of the footprint.



Thanks you all for this wonderful year!

With the greatest gratitude
Ola