What obstacles are you facing with your Open Source project?

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I&rsquo;ve tried launching a couple small open source projects in my time and it has been tough.Hard to gain an audience. Hard to build a community. And many more.Why is this?Well, I&rsquo;m not sure. There is obviously something in a developer&rsquo;s path that blocks them from achieving their goals.Is there something that would make building/launching/growing your open-source project easier?Let us know in the comments below so we can help you out!

0x1DEADCA0 · Accepted Answer

I have found a little bit of success writing my own single file projects (no fancy web servers or build pipelines) and directly messaging people that I think would like to use it. They haven't grown organically from there yet, but I haven't tried to make the projects grow organically either.
The people who use my files seem pretty happy and get a kick out of them. I've written a few games and a few utilities like a flashcard generator, a practice exam generator, and higher level objects for other frameworks.
I wish the world would release more barebones and easy to use projects like these, but it seems that more people are obsessed with using the latest tech du jour.

etewiah · Answer

Perhaps seek out and join a similar open source project before launching one of your own....