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Early history

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- Zulip was originally developed by Zulip, Inc., a small startup in - Cambridge, Massachusetts. Zulip, Inc. was founded by the MIT team - that previously created - Ksplice, software for - live-patching a running Linux kernel. Zulip was inspired by - the BarnOwl client for - the Zephyr - protocol, and the incredible community that Zephyr supported at MIT. -

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- Zulip, Inc. was acquired by Dropbox in early 2014, while the product - was still in private beta. Zulip’s beta - users loved - Zulip’s unique user experience and continued using it, despite - the fact that the product was not being actively developed. After a - year and a half, Dropbox generously decided to - release Zulip as open source software - so that Zulip’s users could continue enjoying the software. -

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- As a result, the first time the public had the opportunity to use - Zulip was when Dropbox - released - Zulip as open source software in late 2015. The open sourcing - announcement was very popular, staying at the top of - both Hacker - News - and the - programming subreddit for an entire day. -

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- Zulip was open sourced with the complete version control history - intact because 10 Zulip users visited Dropbox for a full week to - help with the technical work. The Zulip community is incredibly - grateful to both Dropbox and those enthusiastic early users for - making the Zulip open source project possible. -

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Success as an open source project

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- At first, the Zulip open source project was - maintained with just a bit of lead developer Tim - Abbott’s nights and weekends. However, the - community steadily gained new contributors, and - has now grown to be one of the world’s largest and - most active open source projects. We highlight a - few milestones below: -

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  • - By the end of 2015, the open source project - was already going strong with a community of - dozens of developers around the world. -
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  • - At the PyCon Sprints in May 2016, dozens of - developers got involved in contributing to - Zulip; a major accomplishment from those - sprints - was annotating - Zulip with mypy static types. -
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  • - By late - 2016, more - than 150 people from all over the world - had contributed almost 1000 pull requests to - the software, and the Zulip project was moving - faster than when the original startup employed - 11 full-time engineers. -
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  • - At the PyCon Sprints in May 2017, tens of - Zulip core developers gathered and led the - largest PyCon sprint ever, with over 75 - developers contributing to Zulip over course - of the 4-day event. -
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  • - As of October 2018, the Zulip server project had - merged - 6500 pull requests written by over - 400 developers. -
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Commercial (re-)launch

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- In 2016, Tim Abbott started a company, Kandra Labs, to - steward and financially sustain Zulip’s development. Kandra - Labs was soon awarded - a large grant from - the US National Science Foundation, and also acquired - additional sources of funding. -

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- In mid-2017, Kandra Labs launched two products: a - hosted Zulip service - at zulip.com, and - an enterprise support product for on-premise - deployments. -

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- As of October 2018 the hosted service was seeing 4× year - over year growth in daily active users, and the - on-premise product was seeing rapid adoption (fueled - partly by the sunsetting of HipChat server). -

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Support

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- Kandra Labs is supported by nearly $1M - in SBIR - grants from the US National Science - Foundation, and Zulip has benefited enormously - from the 30+ developers that started working on - Zulip - via Google - Summer of Code and - Google - Code-In. -