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Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?

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Re: Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?

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Post by Hussain04 »

benoau wrote: post #10
Hussain04 wrote: post #4

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I got the most traction from the subreddit I posted it on. FYI I am measuring traction based on how many GitHub stars that repo got (which is a bad way to measure I know). But good idea, cheers!

I'd forget all about stars and just find some people to actually use your software, bend over backwards to make sure they have a good experience, and amongst these people find and cultivate advocates for using it and projects that can promote how your software is helping.

Thanks for this. I am jumping too many steps. Good realization to read.

Re: Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?

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Post by inigyou »

Hussain04 wrote: post #8
inigyou wrote: post #7

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How many people do you know who want to view ML models and edit and customise their layers?

Yeah not many. But the site that can only view ML model has over 30k GitHub stars.

Viewing seems useful to fulfill curiosity. But what can you do by editing? Any nontrivial edit to an ML model without retraining will just break it. Maybe you can quantize or reduce context length only.
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