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

Transcript

3. RUBY ♦ WEEKLY
6. I WAS NAIVE
7. 7 STARS 1 ISSUE
9. OPEN SOURCE
10. PUSHED TO GITHUB WROTE CODE
11. 2 users GRANDPA AND YOURSELF
12. COMPETITIVE
13. STRATEGY
14. KNOW HOW TO SAY IT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
15. IDEA
16. SOLVE YOUR OWN PROBLEM
17. I SOLVE DEVELOPER PROBLEMS
20. GO TO MARTYNAS
22. HACKER NEWS
27. HAVE A WEBSITE
28. SHORT TITLE
29. WRITE TO INFLUENCERS
30. RUBY WEEKLY RUBY DAILY @RUBY ON RAILS NEWS @RUBY NEWS RUBY5 A FRESH CUP SITEPOINT THE CHANGELOG DAILYJS @DHH
31. 152 179 601 1 116 INFLUENCERS GITHUB TRENDING REDDIT TWITTER
33. YOU SOLVE YOUR OWN PROBLEMS
34. LEARN OUT LOUD
36. GET LAID
37. T om HANKS