Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?
As in the title, how do you show your free (as in freedom) software projects to the world? I like creating useful niche tools for my personal workflow in Linux, but often these things scale to something more than just simple things for my use. Adding sophisticated interfaces to CLI tools through relatively simple means, like cobra in Go, is a compelling idea. There are many frameworks to make fully-featured CLI tools easily and quickly. I feel like these tools could be beneficial and interesting to the public, but these tools have to be visible first to be tried.
However, the websites for discussing software seem to be pretty much just Hacker News and Reddit. Subreddits have a blanket ban on self-promotion, even if it is free software. Show HN looked like an option, but apparently new accounts cannot post on it.
I have heard some suggestions like Dev.to, a very dead website, and afterwards even more dead websites.
Is there anything left?
https://ossinsight.io/
And there are tiers within all the repos there. You can find small niche ones and make PRs with your ideas. Much more likely to get use.
This is a cool website, though. I bookmarked it, although I haven't encountered a situation yet where I felt like I could make a PR within my technical skill that meaningfully improves the free software on my computer for everyone.
what do you think? If this site helped you find exactly the repo where you could jump in and contribute would that like solve the itch you are trying to scratch?