Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021
I have two projects with a total of almost 7k stars. [0]<p>It’s worth noting that GitHub stars truly don’t translate into anything worthwhile in the vast majority of cases. You can have a massively popular project, but it doesn’t automatically translate into Twitter followers or newsletter subscribers. And those things don’t directly translate into wealth or happiness either.<p>Just get a job and make friends and have a life. That route has the highest expected value. I have been chasing GitHub stars for a long time, and it has never been fulfilling. I wouldn’t recommend it.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/colinhacks/zod" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/colinhacks/zod</a>