Talk about time flying. The date was August 19th, 2014 – Stick Nodes was taken out of it’s month-long BETA period and thrown live onto Google Play and other Android markets. You can see the release post here on my very old and slightly broken development blog.

As you may be able to tell from the vibe of that linked post above, I had no intention of Stick Nodes becoming anything other than another creation to throw on my portfolio and was looking to move on pretty quickly. In fact, there was no intention for an IOS version (and honestly, no intention for MP4 export either let alone any other advanced features lol).

As a gag let me go through a comparison of some of the stats I had posted “one month later” after release, and compare to today.

It’s funny how Apple has a much better Free-to-Pro conversion factor even though the “Free” downloads are much smaller than that of Android. I wonder why that would be. Yeah, this is big brain time.

Also here are some other random stats.

So happy birthday to Stick Nodes! And not to get out of character too much here, but thanks @ all you guys that stick around and make the community an actual fun place to be.

That’s another thing that I never foresaw, an actual “community” for Stick Nodes – and a thriving one at that. Somehow it has grown across multiple social media networks and has built hundreds if not thousands of Youtube channels. That’s pretty cool and I can only hope it continues. Right now it looks very good, as June, July, and August – actually almost every month of the recent year – has been one-upping the previous in terms of growth for Stick Nodes. App downloads, website visits, new users, etc are all up and growing at record-breaking numbers every month and as long as y’all stick around, I’ll keep updating Stick Nodes.