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Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#13Share it on relevant subreddits and make a gif out how to use it with https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs Projects with gifs on reddit get more attention. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/z0zm8x/oc_nap_a_c...
> Projects with gifs on reddit get more attention.
Corroborates my experience, that is what I did to successfully get some attention for Lusift (https://github.com/lusift/lusift).
Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/vuejs/comments/wpuohd/i_created_a_j...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#14Be wary asking this. People may state how they prefer to be contacted / promoted to, but this may not align with what is actually effective.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#15Share it on relevant subreddits and make a gif out how to use it with https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs Projects with gifs on reddit get more attention. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/z0zm8x/oc_nap_a_c...
That's very meta. Explaining how to promote open source software by promoting some open source software. I like it
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#16Good projects don't need promotion. Unless you're looking to monetize it, surely the reward is creating the solution you needed?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#17There are "awesome" lists on github, get in touch with maintainers
+1
turns out most of these repositories have contribution guidelines. you can create a PR on your own.
FWIW I recently started listing these awesome lists to post your OSS project on GitHub. [1]
hope it helps!
[1] https://github.com/fmerian/awesome-developer-first-directori...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#18Good projects don't need promotion. Unless you're looking to monetize it, surely the reward is creating the solution you needed?
Yes, but where would the world be if people didn't share things with each other?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#19There are "awesome" lists on github, get in touch with maintainers
+1 turns out most of these repositories have contribution guidelines. you can create a PR on your own. FWIW I recently started listing these awesome lists to post your OSS project on GitHub. [1] hope it helps! [1] https://github.com/fmerian/awesome-developer-first-directori...
Thank you!!!
Re: Ask HN: What's the best (non-spammy) way to promote an open source tool?
#20Good projects don't need promotion. Unless you're looking to monetize it, surely the reward is creating the solution you needed?
But feedback is important, and we'd love to get it to more relevant people who can benefit from it!