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Market your Open Source or kill it

Market your Open Source or kill it

A simple 2 step strategy on how to market your open-source project to get feedback, contributors and users. Insights from my experiments with growth hacking.

At VilniusRB meetup, 2015-01-08 @WIX
Domas Bitvinskas

Domas Bitvinskas

January 08, 2015
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  3. RUBY ♦ WEEKLY

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  6. I WAS NAIVE

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  7. 7 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. 2 users
    GRANDPA AND YOURSELF

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  12. COMPETITIVE

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  13. STRATEGY

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  14. KNOW HOW TO SAY IT
    HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY

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  15. IDEA

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  16. SOLVE YOUR OWN
    PROBLEM

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  17. I SOLVE
    DEVELOPER
    PROBLEMS

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  20. GO TO MARTYNAS

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  22. HACKER NEWS

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  27. HAVE A
    WEBSITE

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  28. SHORT TITLE

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  29. WRITE TO
    INFLUENCERS

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  30. RUBY WEEKLY
    RUBY DAILY
    @RUBY ON RAILS NEWS
    @RUBY NEWS
    RUBY5
    A FRESH CUP
    SITEPOINT
    THE CHANGELOG
    DAILYJS
    @DHH

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  31. 152
    179
    601
    1 116
    INFLUENCERS
    GITHUB TRENDING
    REDDIT
    TWITTER

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  33. YOU SOLVE YOUR
    OWN PROBLEMS

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  34. LEARN OUT LOUD

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  36. GET LAID

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  37. T
    om
    HANKS

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