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by aBioGuy 2531 days ago
It's popular with scientists (genomics) for making web portals to interactively share data / plots / analyses.

The number of users to such sites is (often) measured in dozens of people per day.

I'm a bioinformatician, not a web developer, and Shiny has been a great tool to share my work with something I'm already familiar with (R).

(I'd share a site I've made with Shiny but I'm pretty certain it'd explode with hundreds of concurrent visitors - but that's OK! I get dozens of visitors a day and don't expect any more)