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2024 is almost over. Before heading into 2025, I wanted to reflect on the great first year that was for SwiftToolkit. But more than plain numbers, producing content and sharing it with you is the best part of the year.
Before diving into the numbers, I wanted to thank everyone who has taken part on it: readers, followers on social media, guest authors, sponsors, and developers who joined Dev Conversations. To everyone who appreciated the content and shared it - be it on Mastodon, X, LinkedIn, or in their own newsletters - thank you so much for spreading the word and increasing the reach of SwiftToolkit.
Although the website launched in January, and some posts went live in the first half of the year, we’ve been publishing content on a weekly basis since July. The numbers below might not look so significant in a first glance, but when taking into account that we are covering a niche topic, and the impact it can have on developers willing to expand their knowledge, they’re a great achievement and definitely a privilege worth celebrating.
In total, 31 posts went live:
- 23 articles 📝
- 6 Dev Conversations episodes 🎙️ (5 video & audio, 1 written) with 8 developers
- 1 video tutorial 🎥
- 1 Hello World (announcing the website) 🌍
- Using SwiftUI in Command Line Tools was the most popular post of the year!
From the 23 articles, 2 series were created:
Some numbers behind the scenes:
- Almost 20k unique visitors so far
- Between 15k to 20k page reads per month on average
- 356 commits to the website repo
- 6 Lambda Functions supporting interactive articles
- 14 repositories with sample projects
- 145 followers on X, 108 on Mastodon
- 🐣 52 YouTube subscribers and 800 views
Here are the topics that we covered the most:
I’m looking forward to what 2025 will bring. Although these are modest numbers, it feels like it’s just the beginning of something bigger!
If you have any suggestions for topics, don’t hesitate to reach out! 🎉