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> I've had good luck in slack orgs, don't be marketing or fishing for users. Get to know the group before making an ask Sweet, thanks for the feedback! I'll de
by freeqaz 5y ago
> I've had good luck in slack orgs, don't be marketing or fishing for users. Get to know the group before making an ask
Sweet, thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely go check out some communities of related projects and talk to people that way. That's a great idea. :)
> your current users, though this is a chicken-egg problem
We do have some users currently, but I'd like to get additional perspective. I found them all manually via emailing them, which is totally different versus the approach now that we're Open Source. It's a different approach when somebody is trying out a Demo App and using a library, versus the first users were found which were more "Use this tech we built, and we're going to help you solve that problem."
It's bottom up vs top down. Getting "bottom up" feedback is harder because you're not in the room with the person. But "bottom up" is very much how I operate as a dev perusing for Open Source software.
> make it as easy as possible in as many places as possible. GitHub, a form, by email, from both inside and outside the app
That's another good point. I should make it more obvious so that people actually think about it. It's currently too "out of sight, out of mind" and I'm relying on people to be proactive about giving feedback. It doesn't hurt to ask nicely!
- verdverm 5y agoI think the thing that will help most is docs. I don't really see any. This is what I'm mainly focusing on for https://github.com/hofstadter-io https://github.com/hofstadter-io