I maintain Bulma: https://bulma.io/ 1) I started it because it was simply a personal CSS framework I was using myself to kick start my projects, and I wanted to share it around. 2) People found it through various websites, organically I guess. 3) I initially only posted it here on Hacker News I think. Then it was trending on Github, and other people posted it on Reddit, and other websites like Codrops. 4) I've never…
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
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Re: Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
#52Cocreator of Django here. The very first thing I did was a presentation of Django at the Chicago Python Users Group. There were enough people in attendance that it led to a few early users. A few of those people blogged about it, and so on. Django was open-sourced in 2005, and the world was very different back then. No GitHub/Bitbucket and people had very low standards/expectations for the design of an open-source pr…
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#53My most popular open-source project [1] I talk about at conferences, mostly C++ ones (last example [2]). I was lucky to also land a paper about it at ICFP'17 [3]. On Friday I will talk at the MeetingCpp conference in Berlin about a new library I am building (kind of experimental Redux for C++ with time-travelling debugger!). I work as a freelancer and at the moment I do client work 3 days a week and dedicate the rest…
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#54There've been a few external contributions and there are definitely some users, but I'm not too sure how many. I don't think it's the sort of project that has much ongoing development, so it's not something a community would form around.
[1] https://github.com/joealcorn/laboratory [2] https://githubengineering.com/scientist/
Re: Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
#55If anyone has any tips for sharing machine learning frameworks, I'd be very interested!
Re: Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
#56To gain the initial momentum we did following:
- Sharing with local community meetups
- Sharing with CocoaPods & other component websites
- Sharing with Top Github repository who maintain 'Awesome Lists'
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#57I am looking for contributors -- if you are interested in this space, please contact me.
https://github.com/michael-stajer/stripe-subscription-scaffo...
Re: Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
#58Cocreator of Django here. The very first thing I did was a presentation of Django at the Chicago Python Users Group. There were enough people in attendance that it led to a few early users. A few of those people blogged about it, and so on. Django was open-sourced in 2005, and the world was very different back then. No GitHub/Bitbucket and people had very low standards/expectations for the design of an open-source pr…
Re: Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
#59Not nearly enough :) My most popular open source project is Jadelet[1], the frontend templating language nobody asked for. It was primarily made to solve my own problems so promoting it was secondary to coding it. Most of my other projects are apps that happen to be open source but people experience them through the app much more than through the code, things like pixel editors[2], music makers[3], web based zine bas…
Re: Ask HN: How much time do you spend on “marketing” your open source projects?
#60Cocreator of Django here. The very first thing I did was a presentation of Django at the Chicago Python Users Group. There were enough people in attendance that it led to a few early users. A few of those people blogged about it, and so on. Django was open-sourced in 2005, and the world was very different back then. No GitHub/Bitbucket and people had very low standards/expectations for the design of an open-source pr…