12 points by alexyan0431 2 days ago | 10 comments
- > No pull requests, no issues, even no stars
This is the standard for most projects
What is your objective?
- I totally agree! As most of developers do, I want my projects to be seen by more users. It's really helpful to find out the drawbacks in my projects and make me realize how to imporve my works. I need feedbacks, both positive and negative are welcome. So I'm writing this post to ask my seniors for advice and experiences on how to promote an open-source project.
- This is normal. Projects used by others are the exception. They are usually driven by skilled marketing efforts or funding.
- Yes. Marketing skills are significant, and I'm trying to learn more about it. It's just at the early stage for me though lol. I hope I can stick to it.
- Post it where your users already spend time and keep it simple—show what problem it solves, not just the code.
- Agreed. I think that's the basis of promotion and marketing: find your users and make sure you can reach them. I'll try to be more focused on meeting the needs. Ty.
- What do you find them useful for? Could they potentially provide value to another open source project if integrated?
- The inspiration came from scattered fragments of my observed needs in life, so it may be hard to intergrate the tools. But I can intentionally do this afterwards. Thank you for your comment.
- You could start by putting a link to your projects or blogs in your HN profile.
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- Please share some of your tools.
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