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Ask HN: How to get your open-source project gain popularity?

2•Hussain04•55m ago
If someone has made a free-to-use tool that is open-source and legitmately helpful (and not AI slop). How do I get it to people?

I have already posted it here on HN, on subreddits, on LinkedIn, and some forums. Where else can I post (for free)?

What other social media platforms would be good for this?

For context I have two tools: one is robotics related and the other is ML related.

Comments

benoau•39m ago
Did you get any traction from your existing efforts? Maybe someone using your work can promote it to their users, or you do something in their project to increase your visibility to them, that kind of thing.
Hussain04•31m ago
I got the most traction from the subreddit I posted it on. FYI I am measuring traction based on how many GitHub stars that repo got (which is a bad way to measure I know). But good idea, cheers!
verdverm•39m ago
> legitmately helpful

Here are several things to ponder on

0. Why is popularity the goal? Can you be happy if it is useful to a small number of people

1. How do you know it is helpful? Open source tends to be organic and if users find it helpful, they will use it and tell others. If it is not getting traction, you might revisit this perception. It could be that it is hard to use and needs better documentation, or it could generally not be useful at solving the problem others have.

2. Do you have a place for a community? Word of mouth is better than trying to market it yourself

3. It takes time for most projects. Those rocket ship projects (and startups) are the exception

Hussain04•23m ago
0. Personal milestone really. Just want to see how much help I can be to others I guess. Hard to say.

1. One of my projects does almost the same stuff a proprietary software does so I am providing a free alternative. My other project is helpful in the sense that it does something no single-application does. Like there exists a site that can view ML models then there exists softwares that can edit and customize layers in a model. My tool does both in one. But yes you are right, maybe I am not selling my product in the right manner. Good idea to think about.

2. No :(. How can I go about creating one?

3. Fair enough

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