I launched the first alpha at the end of June. At that time only people who knew about activeCollab were Serbian development community and few people who read SuperDeluxe (weblog by Milos Radovic, in German). People welcomed the idea of free, open source project management tool that focuses on simplicity so I knew that we are on the good track.

Few days later activeCollab got listed on eHub and everything started to move pretty fast. Everything went wild when activeCollab made up on the front page of Digg with 1450 diggs and 160 comments. Site went down because of the heavy load so we replaced in with one static page, screenshots and download links. That was enough to get people started. Second big wave of visitors we got few hours after the first wave from Digg when activeCollab was features on Techcrunch and presented as a free Basecamp alternative. That article created nice discussion - 100 comments. Even David and Jason replied.

People liked activeCollab a lot. I got tons of mails that varied from short messages from people who just wanted to say hello and give they best wishes to the project to pretty long messages, support requests, feature requests and even a few job offers (not just few, more than 10 to be more precise)!

Recently activeCollab was mentioned in SitePoint newsletter. Its small article at the end of the newsletter but it brought pretty nice traffic to www.activecollab.com.

www.activecollab.com got into Movers & Shakers section on www.alexa.com with growth of 1700%! That doesn't surprise when you know that activeCollab is online for just three weeks with all those “big” events and the fact that 290 people blogged about activeCollab in that short time (according to Google blog search).

Thank you people! You did your job great and I'll try to provide best product for a price that is hard to match: $0.