But why build oss?
"I already have a lot of things to do”
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To learn new things
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To show your skills
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To help and build communities
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To meet people
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To create experiments
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9
tips
and
tricks
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You’re better than
you know
Always look at the highest
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Don’t think that you can’t do
something big
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Let your open source
senses tingle
You can only build things you use yourself
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Try to find a company that support you
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Small and focused projects can perform better
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Be professional
Manage your project like it was your startup
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Choose a good name
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Create a logo
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Setup a baddass repo (readme, guideline, issue templates)
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Licenses matter
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Reinventing the wheel
Think out of the box
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You don’t need something new.
You need something different.
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Simplicity, Always!
Create something simple is complex
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Try to explain why you're important is the first impression
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Don’t be so technical
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Improve your
project constantly
Try to release versions frequently
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Use semantic version with a clearly changelog
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Learn about marketing
Twitter is one of the best places to release
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Use videos and gifs to make your releases
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Find communities related to your project
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Tag relevant people. Don’t be ashamed.
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Contact some newsletters. People still see email.
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Learn english
If you want to reach a lot of people
you need to learn english.
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Have someone who
♥ and supports you
Find people to put by your side who really care about you
and the community, not just about your project or stars
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