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>> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team. As a solo open source developer who maintains
by cryptica 6y ago
>> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team.
As a solo open source developer who maintains a popular OSS project, this is 100% the case. Sometimes it feels like big corporations are actively working against us. It's almost impossible to get any coverage at all on any kind of media. No matter how much organic growth your project has.
My project has been growing steadily and linearly for almost a decade. Now it has almost 6K stars on GitHub so you'd think that this by itself would draw some attention? Not so.
It's almost impossible to find it on Google search results. Most users find the project through direct word of mouth from other users of the project. We've never received a single consulting contract from any corporation.
- IggleSniggle 6y agoso what's the project?
- jauco 6y agoI think it’s socketcluster. However, i’m not quite sure what it does (it obviously does something really well, but I’m probably not precisely the target audience) It might help adoption and re-share value if your readme starts with some problem and shows how your tool solves it. The cadence/temporal people did this really well: https://www.temporal.io/ https://www.temporal.io/
- mzz80 6y agoYou’re going to be bitter and resentful for a long time if you believe that the fact that you haven’t received a single consulting contract is due to big corporations working against you. It sounds like you’ve built a useful piece of software. However, you don’t get handouts because you’ve built something. Those who are successful actively promote themselves and their products. There’s a reason companies aren’t comprised of just software engineers.