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This article seems relevant for my situation. A few days ago I released project management software called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com http://wheatbin.com. It

This article seems relevant for my situation. A few days ago I released project management software called Wheatbin: http://wheatbin.com http://wheatbin.com. It's my first contribution to Open Source. The github repo is here: https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin The software works great for my needs, but it would be nice to see Wheatbin evolve through community involvement. I wasn't sure if that happened organically or if there were things I could do to get that started.

moron4hire 10y ago
There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". I mean, the movie "Field of Dreams" was about a literal miracle, after all. Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software.
- forgotpwtomain 10y ago
  > There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". Who is marketing Redis, Postgresql, UBlock, VLC? I understand the opposite doesn't apply to everything but neither does the blanket negation.
  - detaro 10y ago
    Attention for uBlock AFAICT started with a widely shared blog post comparing its performance to other Adblockers. From there on it's probably word of mouth, but writing that blog post and getting attention to it was "marketing", even if maybe not intended that way. And it was good marketing, since tech loves "This thing is proven to be sooo much faster than the old thing people don't love 100%" stories ;)
  - moron4hire 10y ago
    Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.
    - forgotpwtomain 10y ago
      Your post explicitly states: > Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software. The comments in response to my post have been about the author's of said software publishing blogs - are you really equating 1 author publishing a blog with the 'marketing and sales' used to sell proprietary software (as in dedicated sales team, dedicated marketing teams, SEO, dedicated social media/pr employees)? > Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB. Saying that Postgres is 'very heavily marketed' when drawing a comparison to the marketing proprietary software receives isn't just misleading, it's false.
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    Their evangelists doing talks at developers's conferences.
  - sotojuan 10y ago
    VLC was (is?) written about extensively by blogs like Lifehacker. It's one of the most recommended programs on forums. I'm surr it started by the creators letting people know about it.

moron4hire 10y ago

There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". I mean, the movie "Field of Dreams" was about a literal miracle, after all. Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software.

forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> There is no such thing as "if you build it, they will come". Who is marketing Redis, Postgresql, UBlock, VLC? I understand the opposite doesn't apply to everything but neither does the blanket negation.
- detaro 10y ago
  Attention for uBlock AFAICT started with a widely shared blog post comparing its performance to other Adblockers. From there on it's probably word of mouth, but writing that blog post and getting attention to it was "marketing", even if maybe not intended that way. And it was good marketing, since tech loves "This thing is proven to be sooo much faster than the old thing people don't love 100%" stories ;)
- moron4hire 10y ago
  Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB.
  - forgotpwtomain 10y ago
    Your post explicitly states: > Open source software takes just as much marketing and "sales" to convince people to use--say nothing about contribute to it--as proprietary software. The comments in response to my post have been about the author's of said software publishing blogs - are you really equating 1 author publishing a blog with the 'marketing and sales' used to sell proprietary software (as in dedicated sales team, dedicated marketing teams, SEO, dedicated social media/pr employees)? > Postgres is very heavily marketed by EnterpriseDB. Saying that Postgres is 'very heavily marketed' when drawing a comparison to the marketing proprietary software receives isn't just misleading, it's false.
- pjmlp 10y ago
  Their evangelists doing talks at developers's conferences.
- sotojuan 10y ago
  VLC was (is?) written about extensively by blogs like Lifehacker. It's one of the most recommended programs on forums. I'm surr it started by the creators letting people know about it.