It shows the importance of self-promotion. If you don't self-promote then no one will know that you exist no matter how good or even how significant your projec

It shows the importance of self-promotion. If you don't self-promote then no one will know that you exist no matter how good or even how significant your project is. It's easy to forget to self-promote when you're busy doing actual work though. That was my problem as well because I created a popular open source project and I was focused on driving all the attention towards the project and none to myself. I created a Twitter account for the project, the GitHub repo was under an organization instead of my own personal profile, the blog I made was also named after the project. The lesson I learned is that people don't care that much about projects and concepts, they need to see faces and names. Even among highly technical developer communities... So imagine how bad it must be in mainstream communities.