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Did you get any traction from your existing efforts? Maybe someone using your work can promote it to their users, or you do something in their project to increase your visibility to them, that kind of thing.
by benoau
One of mine was mentioned on HN. The repo went from 0 stars to about 60 in a couple of days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369768
by t0mpr1c3
> legitmately helpful
Here are several things to ponder on
0. Why is popularity the goal? Can you be happy if it is useful to a small number of people
1. How do you know it is helpful? Open source tends to be organic and if users find it helpful, they will use it and tell others. If it is not getting traction, you might revisit this perception. It could be that it is hard to use and needs better documentation, or it could generally not be useful at solving the problem others have.
2. Do you have a place for a community? Word of mouth is better than trying to market it yourself
3. It takes time for most projects. Those rocket ship projects (and startups) are the exception
by verdverm
More platforms probably isn't the lever here. Getting onto the awesome-robotics and awesome-ml lists on GitHub puts you where people actually search when they hit the problem your tool solves.
by PaiDxng
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- Did you get any traction from your existing efforts? Maybe someone using your work can promote it to their users, or you do something in their project to increase your visibility to them, that kind of thing.by benoau
- One of mine was mentioned on HN. The repo went from 0 stars to about 60 in a couple of days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369768by t0mpr1c3
- > legitmately helpful
Here are several things to ponder on
0. Why is popularity the goal? Can you be happy if it is useful to a small number of people
1. How do you know it is helpful? Open source tends to be organic and if users find it helpful, they will use it and tell others. If it is not getting traction, you might revisit this perception. It could be that it is hard to use and needs better documentation, or it could generally not be useful at solving the problem others have.
2. Do you have a place for a community? Word of mouth is better than trying to market it yourself
3. It takes time for most projects. Those rocket ship projects (and startups) are the exception
by verdverm - More platforms probably isn't the lever here. Getting onto the awesome-robotics and awesome-ml lists on GitHub puts you where people actually search when they hit the problem your tool solves.by PaiDxng