Discussion on "6 Lessons Learned Maintaining a Popular Open-Source Project"

Simon Egersand 🎈 · 2022-06-08T15:21:50.419Z

Between 2016 and 2018 I maintained an open-source project with +800k downloads/month. I learned six invaluable lessons by doing this, and I will now share them with you. How It All Started 🛫 I joined Spotify in 2016 and my team needed a React date p...

Thanks for sharing your experience. I started working on an open source project and stopped after two days because it was hard for me to find my stack that I can work on . Definitely I'll start again to feel the fun

Yeah, go for it! Eventually, you'll find something you like. There are a ton of OSS projects out there.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it was an interesting read!

Thanks, Eleftheria. I'm glad you liked it 😊

Communication with devs can be fun sometimes 🤣. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Thanks for the thoughts! I've just begun building an open source project (super basic) to develop good project management, issue tracking and versioning habits on GitHub rather than merely pushing to main ad nauseum. Have a great one!

Thanks, Eamonn! I learned a lot working with a GitHub project so hopefully, you will too. Have a good one ☀️

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