Yeah, I agree. The initial stages of releasing to public is always rough. You need to gain traction and be able to capture a suitable audience who is willing to use the product. Unfortunately open-source projects are not some product you can make ads on and show it on TVs or billboards. But thankfully there exists platforms like Hacker News and Reddit. Two good platforms where you can post about your product. While its more specific on Reddit, you need to share it on a subreddit you think whose audience closely resonates with your project.
Once your project becomes popular that's usually when companies start looking at it. And when you reach that stage you probably already have established a community for your project.
I've built whm [0] also known as WiFi heatmap generator. This project is actually just a week old. For the past few weeks I was searching for a proper tool that can benchmark and profile my Access Point locations at my home. Tried a lot of android and windows apps and got frustrated using them. So I ended up making whm and releasing it to public. The project currently is able to capture metrics like WiFi latency, jitter TCP and UDP bandwidth across iperf3, speedtest and librespeed.
I tried using the paid ones like NetSpot but I preferred more flexibility not to mention their app did not work properly on my Android 11 device and I preferred a more opensource approach.
I tried an open source tool made by Jason Antman called Wifi survey map [1] but it did not have support for multiple APs and does not support speedtest benchmarking.
I've built whm [0] also known as WiFi heatmap generator. This project is actually just a week old. For the past few weeks I was searching for a proper tool that can benchmark and profile my Access Point locations at my home. Tried a lot of android and windows apps and got frustrated using them. So I ended up making whm and releasing it to public. The project currently is able to capture metrics like WiFi latency, jitter TCP and UDP bandwidth across iperf3, speedtest and librespeed. So far its only me who is maintaining it and hopefully some might be interested in it.
Once your project becomes popular that's usually when companies start looking at it. And when you reach that stage you probably already have established a community for your project.