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This article was originally published on the ShareLaTeX blog and is reproduced here for archival purposes.

Last week we hit an amazing milestone -- the three millionth project was created on Overleaf!

When John and I kicked this all off (as writeLaTeX) just over two and half years ago, we never expected it to grow this fast. Looking at this early screenshot compared to the current editor, it's amazing how little has changed on the surface:

But things have certainly had to scale up on the backend! To celebrate hitting the three million projects mark, and to help give a sense of this scale, we've put together a few other stats about Overleaf we hope you'll find interesting (and maybe a little surprising too!).

Exciting news! Overleaf has been shortlisted for the 2015 ALPSP award for Innovation in Publishing!

Overleaf founders John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller will be demoing at The Europas conference in London this week - stop by our table in the networking area to say hi and find out more about Overleaf and the partnerships we're building with institutions and publishers to make collaborative writing and professional typesetting accessible to all.

We are proud to announce that Dr John Hammersley, Overleaf co-founder, has recently been named by The Bookseller as one of their 2015 Rising Stars.