open-source-promotion-cheat-sheet/README.md

<h1 align="center">How to promote my open-source? 🚀</h1>

> This cheat sheet summarize important steps you should follow to promote your open-source project in the best conditions.

List of availables languages:

- [English](./README.md)
- [Français](./README-fr.md)

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## 1. 🎢 Preparation step

- 😎 Choose a cool name for your project

- 💅 Make your README pretty

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  > [List of beautiful readmes](https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme).

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- ✨ Provide a demo of your project

- 👌 Insall/Usage must be super easy

- 📘 Create a clean and well structured documentation

## 2. 📢 Spread the word about your hard works

- ⭐ Talk about your project to your friends and colleagues to get your first stars before publishing to social networks

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  > A minimum of stars make your project more trustable then a zero star project.

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- ↗️ Share the project on social medias an specialized platforms

-  📃 Write articles that mention your project

- 🕐 Take care to choose the best time to post and share articles

- 📘 Manage your communication to make the project be in trending pages

## 3. 🤝 Keep your users

- 🆕Try to regularly release new versions of your project

- ❗ Do not let issues open without answer

- 🙏 Invite users to contribute

- 🏆 Reward contributors

- 💬 Open a community chat platform

- 🔙 Ask for feedback