Ask HN: What are the best ways to promote any opensource project?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best ways to promote any opensource ... by brudgers on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:38AM (#12718778)

Over the long term, the best way is to build a community of users. That means a lot of work that 'does not scale' like communicating with individuals who are using the project to solve projects right now rather than broadly overselling it to people who don't have exactly the problem it solves well.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best ways to promote any opensource ... by MinhasKamal on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:04PM (#12719220)

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your thought.

But what should be the first step to build up a community? How to let others know that there is a tool that can be helpful for them?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best ways to promote any opensource ... by brudgers on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:12PM (#12719272)

One person at a time. It might be harder work than writing the code depending on your tool set. Quality documentation, a useful landing page, clear enthusiastic communications to individuals that help them with their problems.

The pit that many open source projects fall into is looking for people to do work rather than looking for people who need help.

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