Milestone: Our First User Outreach & A Critical Fix

Building in public and watching the stats grow is rewarding. But nothing compares to the moment a real-world user reaches out for the first time. It turns a project into a product.

Here are a few stats to document this progress milestone. The growth since the end of the year has been encouraging:

Google Search impressions have started to spike significantly in early January, and site traffic shows a healthy jump in unique views over the last two weeks.

The highlight of the week was receiving the first-ever email from a user. A user named Mark reached out to share that he is testing Modbus Connect as a potential replacement for his 20-year-old copy of ModScan32.

Mark identified an issue with how the app was handling 32-bit Float data. While the dashboard was displaying the value correctly (e.g., 28.5), the Graphing tool and the Data Logger were not properly casting the values, reverting instead to raw Integers.

Mark's report was incredibly helpful and allowed quick isolation of the issue within the logging and graphing modules.

Looking Ahead to 2026

This journey has been genuinely enjoyable. This first interaction is exactly the reason for building this—to create a modern tool that solves real problems for the industrial automation community.

A full update on the Roadmap for 2026 will be coming soon. There are exciting features in the works.