Brandon Skerritt

Esoteric Computer Science Knowledge from your favourite local rust girlie

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Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021

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Introduction I have around ~50k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days before it hit 1.7k stars. Humans