Behind the Scenes

Birthday #1

Emily Boyd

Emily Boyd

— 1 min read

Wow! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since we launched Remember The Milk.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all of our wonderful users (there are over 100,000 of you now!). Your valuable feedback has helped us to continually improve our service over the past year – thanks for all your support.

Bob T. Monkey celebrates our first birthday

Team member Bob T. Monkey celebrates our first birthday.

Did you know…?

Since it’s our birthday, we thought we’d have some fun and share some random facts about Remember The Milk…

  • Number of countries our users are from: 155
  • Countries with the most users: Australia, Japan & United States
  • Number of people who’ve volunteered to translate the site: 425 (you guys rock!)
  • Number of languages that RTM is available in: 13 (with 48 more in progress)
  • Most popular language (after English): Japanese
  • Number of times that users have postponed tasks: 269,280 (procrastinators! :)
  • Number of people on the RTM team: 2
  • Number of monkeys on the RTM team: 1
  • Number of fan emails that Bob T. Monkey has received: 23
  • Number of emails received from stuffed animals: 4 (one bear, one duck, two monkeys)
  • Number of lines of code behind RTM: 142,853 (Bob’s been busy…)
  • Number of coffees consumed by the team: 3,452
  • Number of lines of code we write per coffee: 41

We look forward to working towards birthday #2!

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