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> 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

> Choose a name users can easily remember. It must not necessarly includes keywords related to the technology you're using within your project (ex: [bento-starter](https://github.com/kefranabg/bento-starter)).

πŸ’… Make your README pretty

> README is the first your user will see. Make it simple, pretty and easy to read. [Here is a list of beautiful READMEs](https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme).

πŸ’ͺ Highlight strong points of your project

> Identify your project strengths and make sure that visitors see them at first.

✨ Provide a demo of your project

> README is the first your user will see. Make it simple, pretty and easy to read. [Here is a list of beautiful READMEs](https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme).

πŸ‘Œ Insall/Usage must be super easy

> You'll probably lost users if your project is not user friendly.

πŸ“˜ Create a clean and well structured documentation

> It is probably the most important step. If your have a small documentation, you can include it in your README. Otherwise, you should probably host it in a different website. Projects like [vuepress](https://v1.vuepress.vuejs.org) helps you creating clean documentations in a simple way.


## 2. πŸ“’ Spread the word about your hard works
⭐ Talk about your project to your friends and colleagues to get your first github stars before publishing to social networks

> A minimum stars amount make your project more trustable than a zero star project. Ask people you know to support your project before doing a public annouccement on social medias.

↗️ Share the project on social medias an specialized platforms

> Tell the world about your awesome project! Publish on social medias and specialized platforms: - [Twitter](https://twitter.com) - [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/) - [Dev.to](https://dev.to/) - [Lobsters](https://lobste.rs/) - [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/) - [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/) - [Beta page](https://betapage.co/) - [Human Coders](https://news.humancoders.com/)

πŸ“ƒ Write articles that mention your project

> Write articles to talk about your project (purpose can be the technical stack you used, how your project works, problems you encountered, etc). Publish your articles to [medium](https://medium.com/) or [dev.to](https://dev.to/).

🎀 Present your project at conferences/meetups

> Presenting your project at conferences or meetupss is a good way to improve its visibility.

πŸŽ₯ Record and publish videos presenting your project, how it works, etc

> Like conferences, recording is not an easy execise, but it's a great way to get your project famous.

πŸ• Choose the best time to publish on social medias

> Don't publish during holidays period or weekends. Usually the best time to publish on social networks is mid-week.

πŸ—‘ Don't spam platforms with your promotion

> Don't publish twice on the same platform. It will be considered as spam and might cause bad publicity for your project.


## 3. 🀝 Keep your users
πŸ†• Try to regularly release new versions of your project

> Maintain and improve your project with new releases. Generate changelogs is also a best practice to let your users know about changes.

❗ Maintain your project, process opened issues

> Do not let opened issues without response. Be nice with people that took time to open an issue πŸ˜‰

πŸ™ Invite users to contribute

> A healthy project is a project with a community and contributors. Let your users know that you need helps by tagging some issues with `contribution welcome` or `good first issue` labels.

πŸ† Reward contributors

> Be nice with people that helped you! Some open-source projects like [gatsby](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby) reward contributors with goodies. If you can't afford that (which is probably the case), tweet about the contribution and mention the author ([here is an example of tweet](https://twitter.com/FranckAbgrall/status/1139470547492978688)) open a `Contributors` section to your README in order to publicly thanks them (ex: [vuepress contributors section](https://github.com/vuejs/vuepress#code-contributors)).

πŸ’¬ Open a community chat platform

> Github issues are not always the best way to communicate with your users. Use chat platforms to discuss with them: - [Discord](https://discordapp.com) - [Slack](https://slack.com) - [Gitter](https://gitter.im/)

πŸ”™ Ask for feedback

> User's feedback is the best way to improve your project

❀️ Open a use case gallery to show what users built with your project

> Visitors will trust your project if they see concrete use cases (ex: [vuepress gallery](https://vuepress.gallery/))