---
title: "2023 Wrapped and Happy New Year from Railway"
date: 2023-12-29
number: 0166
url: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-12-29-year-in-review
---

# 2023 Wrapped and Happy New Year from Railway

What a year it’s been! 💫

In 2023, we smashed all our previous records for just about every metric we track, from deployments to users, and just about everything in between. 

We’re thrilled to get some time off this week to rest up so we can deliver a trainload of new features to you in the new year. 

In the meantime, let’s jump into the year in review!

## **Year in Review**

This time last year, we were sitting around 175K users on the platform. We’re now supporting well over half a million users and nearing 1M deployments a month! 

Let’s look at some numbers from the past year:

- Team Members: 11 → 19
- Users: 175,000 → 525,000
- MAU: 32,000 → 51,000
- Deployments: 2.7M → 7.8M
- Discord: 9,600 → 21,200

This year we were also thrilled to announce some really exciting companies running on Railway, including [Banana](https://blog.railway.app/p/serverless-inference-gpu-banana-dev), [Mendable](https://blog.railway.app/p/ai-chat-search-mendable), [Paloma](https://blog.railway.app/p/paloma-saurabh-bhatia-dan-landers), [Peerlist](https://blog.railway.app/p/peerlist-professional-network-yogini-bende), and [Arcol](https://blog.railway.app/p/software-for-architects-paul-ocarroll-arcol-interview).

## Changelog Highlights

- [Staged Changes](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-12-08-staged-changes-pb#staged-changes-to-pb)
- [Public Profiles](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-11-24-public-profiles#public-profiles-are-here)
- [Logs Histogram](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-11-17-logs-histogram#logs-histogram)
- [Community Forum](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-11-10-community-forum-preview#railway-community-forum-preview)
- [Deploy from GitHub URL](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-11-03-plugin-migration-priority-boarding#github-url-ga)
- [Database Templates](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-10-20-database-templates#database-templates-ga-on-monday)
- [Usage Limits](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-10-20-database-templates#usage-limits-to-ga)
- [Scale to Zero](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-29-launch-week-01#day-05---workflows-(and-one-more-thing)-)
- [Horizontal Scaling](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-29-launch-week-01#day-03---horizontal-scaling)
- [Next-Gen Databases](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-29-launch-week-01#day-02---next-gen-databases)
- [Regions](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-29-launch-week-01#day-01---regions)
- [Structured Logs](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-08-regions#structured-logs-to-priority-boarding)
- [TCP Proxying](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-08-regions#tcp-proxying-to-priority-boarding)
- [Cron Jobs](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-01-cron-jobs-ui#cron-jobs-ui)
- [Docker Image Registry Deploys](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-09-01-cron-jobs-ui#docker-image-registry-deploys-ga)
- [Log Explorer](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-08-25-railway-provided-variables#ga-log-explorer)
- [Persistent Volumes](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-07-14-volumes-generally-available#volumes-to-ga)
- [Private Networking](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-06-30-private-networking-general-availability#private-networking-generally-available)
- [Templates Kickback Program](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-04-07-templates-kickback#templates-kickback-program)
- [Wildcard Domains](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-03-24-wildcard-domains#wildcard-domains)
- [CLI v3](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-03-10-cli-v3#cli-v3-general-availability-)
- [Metrics v2](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-02-24-metrics-update#metrics-v2-generally-available)
- [Public Projects](https://railway.app/changelog/2023-01-16-public-projects#public-projects)

## Happy New Year 

We hope you have a wonderful end to a wonderful 2023. 

We can’t wait to hit the ground running in 2024. 

Thanks so much for riding with us, we wouldn’t be here without you. 🥳