At the beginning of December 2016 I released PHPStan, and it’s been enjoying great popularity ever since. It currently has over 1,300 stars on GitHub and over 30,000 downloads on Packagist. It makes me really happy and I love working on it.

On the PHPStan blog I wrote at length about how to go about it if you too want to create a useful, high-quality and successful open-source project. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about the code!