---
title: Embiggening the Toad
teaser: Some big numbers for Hoptoad.
tags: news,airbrake
author: Jason Morrison
published_on: 2010-05-18
---

## Hoptoad’s growing up

It’s been over two years since [Hoptoad](http://hoptoadapp.com) first splashed
into our Basecamp project list, and now there are people all over the world
reclaiming their inbox and tracking their app errors with us.  Here’s a snip
from our analytics:

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/hoptoad-geo.png)

_The sun never sets on Atticus’ watch!_

## To celebrate, we’re offering a new, larger plan: “Bossfrog”

During these two years, we’ve been busy growing as a company, and we know that
you have been, too.  Congratulations!  More and more often, we’re getting
support requests asking for larger plans, with more users and more projects.

To support your growth, we’re pleased to offer a new larger plan on Hoptoad: the
Bossfrog.  We’d like to extend a tip of the hat to our friends at
[TWG](http://www.theworkinggroup.ca/) for Atticus’ newest wardrobe addition.

![''](http://images.thoughtbot.com/ui/bossfrog.png)

Bossfrog gives you double the projects and double the users, with all the same
great Toad taste (and features) of our previously largest plan.  As always, you
can [take it for a spin free for a month.](https://hoptoadapp.com/account/new)
If you really need a lot of the Toad, there is a [“Hoptoad behind your
firewall”](https://hoptoadapp.com/account/new) option, where you can run Hoptoad
to your heart’s desire in your own data center.

## And we measured the Toad

When I was growing up, there was an area on the kitchen wall that was dotted
with small graphite tick marks, and my family members’ names penciled in.  My
brother and I would often check (and re-check) our height through the years of
our youth, arguing over the thickness of our socks and heights of our haircuts,
eagerly awaiting the day our tickmarks would surpass those of our parents.

We want to remember and cherish these years in Atticus’ life too, so we’ve taken
a few rough measurements to share with you and record for posterity.  I’ve also
included some reference samples, to help you anchor these numbers against more
concrete and familiar things.

- **10,000** is the [number of smokes in the Valley of Ten Thousand
  Smokes][10k-smokes]
  -- and is also the number of projects using Hoptoad.
- **12,000** is the [number of daily calories in the Michael Phelps
  Diet][calories] and the [number of British pounds required to purchase a
  chocolate Ferrari F2008][ferrari]
  -- and is also the number of people using Hoptoad.
- **1.6million** is the [number of matches in Michael Williams’ 10-year London’s
  Tower Bridge replica][bridge] and also the [number of individuals’ names
  blasted off to the moon via NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June
  2009][moon] and also the [number of acres set aside in 27 California counties
  as frog habitat][frogs]
  -- and also the number of unique, different errors caught by Hoptoad.
- **250million** is the [number of Chinese yuan invested to build a new
  Hamburger University in Shanghai][burgers] and the [number of years before
  the earth is reconfigured into supercontinent “Pangaea Ultima”][ultima]
  -- and is also the number of individual errors sent to Hoptoad, to date.

We’re pleased as punch to see Hoptoad continue to grow, and are incredibly
thankful for you, our customers, who have helped us grow, improve, and shape the
direction of Hoptoad.  Please continue to let us know how you’re using Hoptoad,
what you’d like to see us change, and what we can do to serve you better.  [Ride
the Toad!](http://hoptoadapp.com)

FYI: _Hoptoad/Airbrake was sold to RackSpace and is now called [Airbrake Bug Tracker](http://airbrake.io)_.

[10k-smokes]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Ten_Thousand_Smokes
[bridge]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7507454.stm
[burgers]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100405170026/http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/03/31/mcdonalds-opens-new-hamburger-university-in-china
[calories]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/15/foodanddrink.michaelphelps
[ferrari]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110104154358/http://www.product-reviews.net/2008/02/25/the-12000-chocolate-ferrari-f2008/
[frogs]: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/17/local/la-me-frog-habitat17-2010mar17
[moon]: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/million_names.html#backtoTop
[ultima]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea_Ultima