7 Days, 0 Stars — The Honest Open Source Launch Diary
Tags: opensource, startup, honesty, buildinpublic
Author: ZWISERFIT
We published our code. Shared our architecture. Wrote the docs.
Seven days later: zero new GitHub stars.
7 Days, 0 Stars — The Honest Open Source Launch Diary Tags: opensource, startup, honesty,...
7 Days, 0 Stars — The Honest Open Source Launch Diary
Tags: opensource, startup, honesty, buildinpublic
Author: ZWISERFIT
We published our code. Shared our architecture. Wrote the docs.
Seven days later: zero new GitHub stars.

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