Toys are projects with low contributor growth and low user growth. They’re probably the least interesting production model to analyze for the purposes of this book, because they are effectively personal projects. Toys are like a side project or a weekend project. Eventually, they might become more widely used, but in their current stage they’re just something that an individual developer enjoys tinkering around with for fun. For example, developer Andrey Petrov made a project called ssh-chat, a client that lets users chat through the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. While the project has thousands
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