Ask HN: How to promote an open source project?

Posted by harshasrinivas on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I started working on this python app a couple of days back "GITHUB WITHIN THE CLI" https://github.com/harshasrinivas/cli-github and the response seems to be pretty good. I got 25 stars in the last one day alone. As of now, I've been listed under "Trending Python Developers" and my repo has been listed under "Trending python projects". Now I am thinking how to promote my repo so that it could reach a large audience.

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote an open source project? by seaneking on Monday June 29, 2015 @08:42PM (#9802117)

Find people with the problem you're solving, and point them to your project. Quora is great for this. Obviously don't just look for the sell (or the star, in this case), but if people are asking about source control, git, etc. they'd probably benefit from knowing about cli-github. (neat project btw, looks like a nice compliment to https://github.com/github/hub).

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote an open source project? by harshasrinivas on Monday June 29, 2015 @08:47PM (#9802134)

i'll take that point :) and thanks! :)

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote an open source project? by voltagex_ on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:31PM (#9801877)

What's your end goal?

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote an open source project? by harshasrinivas on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:43PM (#9801937)

To develop an interface for github inside the command line so that we dont have to open a browser to use github

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Re:Ask HN: How to promote an open source project? by voltagex_ on Monday June 29, 2015 @08:55PM (#9802164)

Yep, TUIs are good - but what's your goal for publicising the project?

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