I couldn't find many real-world examples of how companies promote their open source projects — so I decided to document what we did.

In this post, I share our tactics, what worked, and lessons we learned while growing our OSS project from zero to 3,000 GitHub stars.

Repo: https://github.com/liam-hq/liam

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

This is an interesting app.

Are you using the Events API? https://docs.github.com/rest/activity/events?apiVersion=2022...

I felt a sense of familiarity because I’ve also built a tool using the Events API: https://github.com/masutaka/github-nippou

If your GitHub repository is public, I’d love to check it out—I’ll give it a star!

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

I once created a custom function that toggles between vertical and horizontal splits of two windows. It’s quite handy. https://github.com/masutaka/dotfiles-public/blob/66c976fb069...

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

I think it’s better to write primary information on a blog and share the link on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to retain ownership of the content instead of giving it to them.

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

Great!

Also I use the Japanese summary conveniently. :) https://catnose.me/lab/hackernews-ja

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

I am using Alfred's Snippets feature. I have registered several snippets of GH Markdown and HTML.

note - gh:

> [!NOTE] > Highlights information that users should take into account, even when skimming.

ruby - html:

<ruby>WORD<rp>(</rp><rt>CAPTION</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

The term POSSE is new to me. It is a great learning experience.

masutaka

·w zeszłym roku·discuss

Great, an OSS alternative to https://app.netlify.com/drop.

masutaka

·2 lata temu·discuss

It is wonderfully beautiful. I am pleased with the visualization of my repository :)