Getting your first 1k github stars and promoting an open-source project

by inmypjs

Promoting your open source project - or how to get your first 1K GitHub stars

I've published a number of Open Source Python libraries, but none have seen as much buzz as Rich. Released in 2020, the Rich repo has 35,000 stars on Github. Since then I've released Textual (a work in progress) and Rich-CLI, both of which are on a similar trajectory as far as GitHub stars go. In […]

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Thought this was a solid writeup on how open-source enthusiasts like myself can promote their projects.

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on August 23, 2022

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Until the word is out, your public repository on GitHub is essentially private through obscurity.
I should probably tattoo this part.

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  Haha, yeah that's pretty key!
  
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Why not Product Hunt? Seems like the best possible place to launch an open source tool.

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Building in public is so powerful across the board, but yeah I can see how it could be particularly important for open-source founders.

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