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Thanks very much! I was going for a clean, simple design, so I'm glad that came through. I agree, the calls to action need work. Users will normally enter th
by ScottBurson 14y ago
Thanks very much! I was going for a clean, simple design, so I'm glad that came through. I agree, the calls to action need work.
Users will normally enter the site through a link given them by a developer, that will take them to one of the developer's proposals; that's where their call to action should be, I think. (There is one, but it needs to be more prominent and a little easier to use.)
But I have a more fundamental problem: I have yet to find any developers who actually want to use this thing. I mean, any at all. Admittedly, I haven't been looking much yet outside my own circles, which are fairly small. But it seems at first glance that there aren't that many OSS developers who are even interested in being paid for their work. It appears that a fairly focused search is going to be necessary to find the ones who are.
So what I wanted to ask you is this: in your reviews of OSS projects, what fraction would you say evince a reasonable degree of marketing savvy? Would you be comfortable sharing any names of those who do? My thinking here is that those who actually think about their project as a product, to some extent, are likelier candidates to be interested in my site.
Any general observations you might have about OSS developer psychology would also be of interest.