Woof! Took me a while to get this post out! We’re already in February but still wanted create a 2024 wrap up post. Let’s get into it!
Highlights
We had several goals in 2024 for @pawa but we did not accomplish all of them. Here are some of the notable highlights:
/recovercommand is more useful, provides context as to why we could or could not recover- The Recording embed now has information about expected expiration and who were the members that were part of the recording.
- Add
/save-destinationcommand, save the recordings in a specific channel, similar to!saveDestination - Migrated to new faster server
- We’ve had this server for years but never did the migration.
- Upgraded to the latest version of PostgresQL
- This was on my list for a long time!
- Three major releases and one minor, shy of the goal of one per quarter.
Reflections
Monetization
If this doesn’t pan out, 2024 will be the last year of this project.
This year we made just enough to cover the server costs. We made this money through the sales of PawaLite, if you want to support this project check it out.
It is clear that we need to be more serious about this goal if we want this project to continue living.
Stability
Moving to the new server improved stability. We haven’t seen cases where @pawa straight up refuses to restart on it’s own. However, there has been an influx on recovery requests. The /recover command is a stopgap solution until we find the real problem. Need to figure that out.
Marketing
We created 0 videos this year on YouTube. There’s a lot of commands that don’t have a video, and we should do one for new features as we create them. Furthermore, the PawaLite onboarding video needs a revamp.
Goals for 2025
Will keep this simple as last year we were super ambitious:
- Reduce the number of recoveries needed
- Will need to track the number of failures
- Will also help with a bug in PawaLite where it stops recording without alerting
- Publish one video per quarter
Year in Review
Here are the stats for the year!
- The week with the most recordings was August 4th with 3,820 recordings
- There were 140.9k recordings in total
- Which amounted to 1,431 GB in storage
- This adds up to 3.19 years in recorded time
- As of today, there are 10,875 active servers
- Most recordings are less than 23 MB
- There were 66.5k unique visitors to https://app.pawa.im
- The week with the most views was February 12th with 2.8k views
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