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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

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 🙌

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vincanger

you're welcome :)

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Ezpie

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.

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Axorax

I loved the promo video

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vincanger

thank you

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Axorax

no problem!

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Mihovil Ilakovac

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

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vincanger

haha yeah gotta love Wayne's World

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Martin Baun

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!

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vincanger

Will definitely keep writing about this. thanks!

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Jeff Chavez

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

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vincanger

Glad you found it helpful

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Mike Stemle

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.

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vincanger

Yes, this article is about promoting your open source repo.

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Mike Stemle

As I said, clout-chasing.

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Jake Page

Great work mate!

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vincanger

Thanks bro!

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nujovich

Very inspiring :), congrats!

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vincanger

That's great to hear. Thanks 🙏

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Matija Sosic

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

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vincanger

Thanks, Sausage bro

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Sidali Assoul

Thank you for the great Article.

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vincanger

🙏

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Isaac Klutse

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 👍

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vincanger

awesome!

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Melroy van den Berg

Thanks. Very inspiring and often much over looked. Even if it's free and open source. Marketing is a job on its own.

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vincanger

You are totally right.

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Pa Sri

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

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vincanger

haha good luck :)

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tonny_x_bit

The good way.
Thanks!!!

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vincanger

🙏

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Jakob Engelhardt

Love the guide, also great job with the boilerplate - looks good!

F5bot >> nice find! Already set up my account 💪

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vincanger

Yep, F5bot is awesome :)

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jcigala

kudos! I started reading for an easy sight, but you rock ;-)

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vincanger

:)

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Krishnan Raghavan

Thanks for sharing

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vincanger

🙏

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Jon Randy 🎖️

GitHub stars are a bookmarking tool

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vincanger

Definitely a vanity metric, but the only one I have. And I'm happy with the progress.

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zvone187

0 -> 6k stars in 6 months 🤯 huge