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Re:From "Hack" to "Popular Project" by tyler_ball on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @05:20PM (#3272018)
"I wrote spark in bash shell. From the start, this gave me a huge audience."

It also helps to be a prominent employee and user of a central developer community, with over 800 followers.

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Re:From "Hack" to "Popular Project" by benatkin on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @08:00PM (#3272522)
To clarify, over 800 followers on github. Over 10,000 followers on twitter.
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