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# Refocusing Jan: Feb 2024

## Recap: January 2024

Jan had our first "growth spurt" from 25th Dec 2023 to 13th Feb 2024.
- Good: initial traction, community interest, capturing next wave of contributors
- Bad: good but not great compared to market leaders (awareness, interest), very average retention (<10%)

In business, things tend to move in step functions (ie. new feature, getting into newscycle etc). The law of competition also means that if we stand still, we'll lose our current users to better products. 

A month and a half ago, we were on the outside looking in. Today, we're firmly in the arena, and I'm excited to use our existing momentum to build Jan into a successful business. 

## Jan's Focus (Feb-April)

### Our Focus

- Jan is a tool to create, customize and use AI to use in everyday life
- Jan's mission is to advance human-machine collaboration

### Objective 1: Beautifully Designed, Award-winning Product

- Build a beautifully designed, award winning product
    - Delight and love our user community
- Inspirations: 
    - [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com/)
    - [Things](https://culturedcode.com/things/)
    - [Raycast](https://www.raycast.com/)

### Objective 2: Build a Tool we use every day

- Focus on AI power users and enthusiasts and build a DAU tool for them

### Key Results

- 100k DAU by end-2024 (this will require)
- Win a 

### Anti-Objective

- Enterprise 
- Inspirations: [Adguard](https://adguard.com/), [Bitwarden](https://bitwarden.com/)

## Why?



## Analytics

> "Comparison is the thief of joy" - Theodore Roosevelt

This is Jan's 

I have included comparable growth numbers for an honest appraisal that accounts for macro AI interest. Ollama is a great benchmark as a well-run open source tool, and we have much to learn from them. 

Note: Jan's long-term roadmap is likely to be very different from Ollama's, and I see us as pioneers in opening up the space for Local LLMs. Jan even has an Ollama integration!

### Traction

|                          | Jan                                                                                                                  | Industry Benchmark                                                                                                                                            |
| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Total Downloads          | [~130k](https://somsubhra.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=janhq&repository=jan&page=1&per_page=30)          | Ollama: [~1.7mn downloads](https://somsubhra.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=jmorganca&repository=ollama&page=1&per_page=30)                         |
| Single Version Downloads | [~17k](https://somsubhra.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=janhq&repository=jan&page=1&per_page=30) downloads | Ollama: [~64k downloads](https://somsubhra.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=jmorganca&repository=ollama&page=1&per_page=30) (only Github, no website) |

### Usage

|     | Jan                                      | Industry Benchmark |
| --- | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------ |
| DAU | ~2-4k DAU                                |                    |
| MAU | Too early to tell (a lot of distortions) |                    |

### Community 

|          | Jan                                                             | Industry Benchmark |
| -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ |
| Discord  | [3.3k members](https://discord.gg/FTk2MvZwJH)                   | Faraday: 7.3k      |
| Twitter  | [479 followers](https://twitter.com/janframework)               | Ollama: 14.7k      |
| Linkedin | [610 followers](https://www.linkedin.com/company/janframework/) | Ollama: 5k         |
| Youtube  | ~10 Youtube Videos                                              |                    |

### Developer Attention

|             | Jan        | Comparison   |
| ----------- | ---------- | ------------ |
| janhq/jan   | 9.4k Stars | Ollama: 36.6 |
| janhq/nitro | 1.2k Stars | ?            |
