alt Hacker NewsThe problem is that if this is the game now, you need to play it. I'm trying to get a new open source project off the ground and now I wonder if I need to buy fake stars. Or buy the cheapest kind of fake stars for my competitors so they get deleted.
For Microsoft this is another kind of sunk cost, so idk how much incentive they have to fix this situation.
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superdisk • today at 9:32 AM
An open source project really shouldn't be something you need to "get off the ground." If it provides value then people will naturally use it.
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The issue with that is, it's a game that never ends. Now you need to inflate your npm/brew/dnf installs, then your website traffic to not make it to obvious, etc.
I am not successful at all with my current projects (admittedly am not trying to be nowadays), so feel free to dismiss this advice that predates a time before LLM driven development, but in the past, I have had decent success in forums interacting with those with a specific problem my project did address. Less in stars, more in actual exchange of helpful contributions.