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Hack the Open Source Growth

Hack the Open Source Growth

Insights from my experiments with growth hacking open source projects.

Domas Bitvinskas

December 18, 2017
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  2. 14
    15
    GitHub Trending

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  3. RUBY ‖ WEEKLY

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  4. RUBY ‖ WEEKLY

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  5. Coding
    Open-Sourcing
    and

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  6. 2 STARS

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  7. 10 STARS 1 ISSUE

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  9. OPEN SOURCE

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  10. PUSHED TO
    GITHUB
    WROTE CODE

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  11. MAKING THINGS
    HAPPEN
    WAITING FOR
    THINGS TO HAPPEN

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  12. KNOW HOW TO SAY IT
    HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY

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  13. IDEA

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  14. SOLVE YOUR OWN
    PROBLEM

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  15. Aah, your projects
    are cool.
    My projects aren’t.

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  16. THE RULES
    A project without a “catch”
    Spend the least effort possible
    Should happen over 1 week
    1.
    2.
    3.

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  17. Daniel
    and
    react-compose

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  18. EXPERIMENT

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  20. HACKER NEWS

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  26. HAVE A
    WEBSITE

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  27. WRITE TO
    INFLUENCERS

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  28. React Digest
    The Changelog
    JS Jabber
    Javascript Weekly
    React Newsletter
    Web Design Weekly

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  29. 299
    265
    1 263
    659
    INFLUENCERS
    OTHER
    REDDIT
    TWITTER
    2.5k people

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  30. Spent:
    3 hours creating a website
    2 hours setting up trackers
    10$ on a .com domain
    3 hours writing emails & posts
    I owe my designer shots

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  32. YOU SOLVE YOUR
    OWN PROBLEMS

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  33. LEARN OUT LOUD

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  34. BETTER JOB
    OPPORTUNITIES

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  35. IT IS PRETTY COOL

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  36. Thank you

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