Ask HN: How can I advertise my open source project for almost no money I have an open source stock trading journal https://stjou.com/ that I personally use, but I can't get anyone else to try/use it. What are your tips on marketing open source apps? How can I figure out WHY people aren't using it? Is it ugly? Do people not trust it? Any advice on how to get this in front of people that trade stocks ? Thanks HN |
Look at competitors products and what people say about them, then see how your project measures up.
I can say from experience, at this early stage, one or two users can give immeasurable feedback. Keep working on the product you want and a few will come along.
Writing posts can help. You want content that can be indexed by a search engine for the permanence. Forum / social / chat posts fade quickly into oblivion
Where should I write posts at? All good advice thank you.
You can then share links to posts at appropriate times and in appropriate context (like answering someone's question and giving them a place to learn more through a link, don't spam it around, always be genuinely helpful first)
keep in mind you are in a crowded market, lots of people try to build stock market tools, very few ever get used
My advice works better when you have a specialty or niche (generally specialties and niches do better)
Have you done a https://news.ycombinator.com/show post for the project?
I haven't yet posted to Show I'll do that after I make those changes, thanks!
You’re going to write about it and link to it from forums your audience visits to learn, if you want to get their attention for free.