DEV Community

flo merian for crowd.dev

Posted on • Edited on

Supporting open-source projects on Product Hunt

Earlier this year, I started contributing to open source -- and enjoy doing it.

Contributions on GitHub

From this experience, I learned two main lessons:

  1. You can start contributing anytime,
  2. You don't need to code to contribute.

For non-developers, you can contribute in many (7) different ways:

  • Sponsor open-source projects,
  • Translate,
  • Document,
  • Test,
  • Manage issues,
  • Design,
  • Engage in communities -- joining discussions, giving talks, and helping spread the word.

There's more.

You can support open-source projects on Product Hunt, too.

Supporting OSS projects on Product Hunt

Product Hunt features new products daily. It gets millions of visits every month.

For open-source maintainers, launching on Product Hunt is an opportunity to raise awareness. And they need support!

We're in October, it's #Hacktoberfest. There's no better time to start contributing.

Let's celebrate this month by supporting open-source products.

Open-source projects launched on Product Hunt during #Hacktoberfest2023

Here's a list of past and upcoming launches from open-source projects on Product Hunt this month.

Let's support and upvote them!

Last updated on:

2023-10-31
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Over to you

Who's launching an open-source product this month? Any projects that I missed?

Drop a link to your product launch in the comments, and I'll add it to the list.

Enjoy Hacktoberfest!

Top comments (12)

Collapse
 
johnrushx profile image
John Rush

We actually built open source alternative to product hunt DevHunt.org

Collapse
 
fmerian profile image
flo merian

spot on, @johnrushx! signed up months ago and enjoying it. keep it up :)

Collapse
 
johnrushx profile image
John Rush

thx :)

Collapse
 
tanyarai profile image
tanya rai

We missed Hactoberfest but here's our open-source project to help you build with generative AI models in prod: github.com/lastmile-ai/aiconfig

Collapse
 
mfts profile image
Marc Seitz

nice work Flo!

Collapse
 
fmerian profile image
flo merian

thanks, @mfts :)

Collapse
 
bdougieyo profile image
Brian Douglas

What a wonderful trend to see. Look forward to support more open source product launches.

Collapse
 
fmerian profile image
flo merian

open source ftw!!1

Collapse
 
jonathimer profile image
Jonathan Reimer

Amazing article!

Collapse
 
fmerian profile image
flo merian

thanks, @jonathimer :)

Collapse
 
matijasos profile image
Matija Sosic

Appreciate the feature!

Collapse
 
fmerian profile image
flo merian

you're welcome, @matijasos. enjoy your launch day!