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How I promoted my open source repo to 6k stars in 6 months

vincanger on July 25, 2024

Hey, I'm Vince... I’m a self-taught developer that changed careers during the Covid pandemic. I was able to switch from education to w...

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Juraj • Jul 25

The main takeaway for twitter is just keep “yapping” about your work.

keep yapping 🤣

I never heard of F5bot, it sounds useful!

Thanks for sharing 🙌

vincanger • Jul 25

you're welcome :)

Ezpie • Jul 25

Most of the TS soy devs hang around on twitter/X/call it what ever cause no one cares, and for some reason, they find everything interesting, and yapping is what works the best in X... or twitter.

Axorax • Jul 25

I loved the promo video

vincanger • Jul 25

thank you

Axorax • Jul 25

no problem!

Mihovil Ilakovac • Jul 25

The best bit of marketing for me was when the guys in the video say "cool"!

vincanger • Jul 25

haha yeah gotta love Wayne's World

Pa Sri • Jul 26

I will going to buy lambo like a promo video say 🤣

vincanger • Jul 26

haha good luck :)

Martin Baun • Jul 26

Great read! Looking forward to more updates on this!
I like how you highlighted talking about your stuff. At the end of the day, its what all this is all about!

vincanger • Jul 29

Will definitely keep writing about this. thanks!

Jeff Chavez • Jul 26

Thanks for sharing this. I've been thinking about one.

vincanger • Jul 26

Glad you found it helpful

Jake Page • Jul 25

Great work mate!

vincanger • Jul 25

Thanks bro!

nujovich • Jul 30

Very inspiring :), congrats!

vincanger • Jul 30

That's great to hear. Thanks 🙏

Matija Sosic • Jul 25

The promo video is also my favorite part, masterfully done :)

vincanger • Jul 25

Thanks, Sausage bro

Sidali Assoul • Jul 26

Thank you for the great Article.

vincanger • Jul 29

🙏

Isaac Klutse • Jul 27

Thanks for sharing, I have learnt a lot, with this guide lines next time I promote my open source it's going to be great 👍

vincanger • Jul 29

awesome!

Mike Stemle • Jul 25

No mention of quality or utility, only popularity and external validation. Popularity alone will not make a good open source project, and clout-chasing shouldn't be the point.