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There's nothing wrong with this advice, but you could do everything on the checklist and still attract no users. However, I'd like to question the premise that
by sevensor 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with this advice, but you could do everything on the checklist and still attract no users. However, I'd like to question the premise that that's a good way to measure the success of a project. Having written a very successful open-source library with one user (me), I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out. Some of my other stuff has more users, but I can't say I'm happier with it.
- objectivetruth 8y agoMaybe somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that there's an implied and generally understood "...that I want other people to use," at the end of that headline.
- sevensor 8y agoThere is. It's what I'm responding to here; I want to contest the idea that attracting users is a measure of success. I wrote a library to do something that nobody else really wants to do. But I wanted to have it, I think it was well-executed (one design flaw notwithstanding), and I'm glad I wrote it. So it's a success, and it has exactly one user.