# Thread: 10K Downloads in 14 Days

1/
Two weeks ago, I built an open-source LLM router in a weekend.

Today it crossed 10K npm downloads.

Zero ads. Zero marketing. Zero VC money.

2/
No launch on Hacker News.
No Product Hunt campaign.
No Twitter hype thread (ironic, I know).

Just code. Benchmarks. Honest docs. A sign that actually tells you what the tool does.

3/
Three things worked:

1. Ship every day. Small changes. Visible progress.
2. Independent benchmarks. Not my numbers — third-party tool numbers.
3. Solve something real. Parallel routing was a gap. We filled it.

4/
Three things didn't:

1. Polished landing pages. Nobody cares. The README does the job.
2. Feature overload. Every "one more feature" before launch was wasted time.
3. Obsessing over naming. "adaptive-memory-multi-model-router" is a mouthful. Ship anyway.

5/
The playbook isn't complicated:

Find a real problem. Build the simplest thing that solves it. Publish the numbers. Repeat.

No growth hacking. No "viral loops." Just useful software.

6/
Try it:

```
npm install -g adaptive-memory-multi-model-router
```

Or visit: https://github.com/Das-rebel/adaptive-memory-multi-model-router

Next stop: 100K downloads. Same playbook.
