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Vitaly Rtishchev
Vitaly Rtishchev

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How do you promote your open source projects?

What promotion tools give you most feedback? Have you tried to promote with Hacker News or Reddit and what was the result? What tools gave you the most starts and contributors?

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Tobias Nickel •

In the beginning of the year, I added streaming support with for await loop to my xml parser txml. since then, until summer in grow slowly to 1000 weekly downloads.

the package I first published almost 5 years ago, but never had real download numbers, maybe someone try it, but most downloads are from npm mirror services.

Then I wrote an article on dev, I added the parser as a good option to a few questions on stack overflow, and link it here on dev in some comments (txml). and now I am very happy with 13000 weekly downloads. and with some feedback I work on version 4. That is likely to be more strict.

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ender minyard •

Great work. I think the most successful libraries are ones which are very clearly defined to do one thing.

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Daniel Dan •

Could not agree more! In our work, we use exactly such ones!

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Vitaly Rtishchev Author •