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Demian Brecht
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Build it and they will come.

If there is a need for your tool, people will find it through search engines and word of forums. It never helpshurts to make a few posts yourself in special interest forums relevant to the domain that your tool is in. If there are any, hop on an IRC channel with people of similar interests to let them know about it. Blog about it (if you have a personal blog). Essentially, the more advertising that you do, the better. Having said that, if there isn't a need, people just won't use it.

So in short, yes, push it to GitHub. Enable the issues feature so people can log bugs and a Wiki if your tool is complex enough to warrant it. Don't be discouraged if you don't get immediate hits. Sometimes OS tools can take a little while to gather steam (although some of them are a hit right out of the gate as well).

Good luck :)

Build it and they will come.

If there is a need for your tool, people will find it through search engines and word of forums. It never helps to make a few posts yourself in special interest forums relevant to the domain that your tool is in. If there are any, hop on an IRC channel with people of similar interests to let them know about it. Blog about it (if you have a personal blog). Essentially, the more advertising that you do, the better. Having said that, if there isn't a need, people just won't use it.

So in short, yes, push it to GitHub. Enable the issues feature so people can log bugs and a Wiki if your tool is complex enough to warrant it. Don't be discouraged if you don't get immediate hits. Sometimes OS tools can take a little while to gather steam (although some of them are a hit right out of the gate as well).

Good luck :)

Build it and they will come.

If there is a need for your tool, people will find it through search engines and word of forums. It never hurts to make a few posts yourself in special interest forums relevant to the domain that your tool is in. If there are any, hop on an IRC channel with people of similar interests to let them know about it. Blog about it (if you have a personal blog). Essentially, the more advertising that you do, the better. Having said that, if there isn't a need, people just won't use it.

So in short, yes, push it to GitHub. Enable the issues feature so people can log bugs and a Wiki if your tool is complex enough to warrant it. Don't be discouraged if you don't get immediate hits. Sometimes OS tools can take a little while to gather steam (although some of them are a hit right out of the gate as well).

Good luck :)

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Demian Brecht
Demian Brecht
  • 17.6k
  • 1
  • 48
  • 81

Build it and they will come.

If there is a need for your tool, people will find it through search engines and word of forums. It never helps to make a few posts yourself in special interest forums relevant to the domain that your tool is in. If there are any, hop on an IRC channel with people of similar interests to let them know about it. Blog about it (if you have a personal blog). Essentially, the more advertising that you do, the better. Having said that, if there isn't a need, people just won't use it.

So in short, yes, push it to GitHub. Enable the issues feature so people can log bugs and a Wiki if your tool is complex enough to warrant it. Don't be discouraged if you don't get immediate hits. Sometimes OS tools can take a little while to gather steam (although some of them are a hit right out of the gate as well).

Good luck :)