How to promote my open-source? 🚀

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

List of availables languages:

• English
• Français

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Cheat sheet

1. 🎢 Preparation step

• 😎 Choose a cool name for your project

• 💅 Make your README pretty

• ✨ 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 popular website

  Why ?

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

• ↗️ Share the project on social medias an specialized platforms

• ❓ Make a publication to explain the why and how of the 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

• ✨ Make update time to time

• ❗ Do not let issues open without answer

• 🙏 Do not hesitate to ask for help

• 🤝 Reward contributors

• 💬 Open a community chat platform

• 🔙 Ask for feedback

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Useful links

• List of beautiful readmes