Earlier this year, I started contributing to open source -- and enjoy doing it.
From this experience, I learned two main lessons:
- You can start contributing anytime,
- You don't need to code to contribute.
For non-developers, you can contribute in many (7) different ways:
- Sponsor open-source projects,
- Translate,
- Document,
- Test,
- Manage issues,
- Design,
- Engage in communities -- joining discussions, giving talks, and helping spread the word.
There's more.
You can support open-source projects on Product Hunt, too.
Supporting OSS projects on Product Hunt
Product Hunt features new products daily. It gets millions of visits every month.
For open-source maintainers, launching on Product Hunt is an opportunity to raise awareness. And they need support!
We're in October, it's #Hacktoberfest. There's no better time to start contributing.
Let's celebrate this month by supporting open-source products.
Open-source projects launched on Product Hunt during #Hacktoberfest2023
Here's a list of past and upcoming launches from open-source projects on Product Hunt this month.
Let's support and upvote them!
- Formbricks, launched on October 31st
- Wasp Full-Stack Auth, launched on October 27th
- Emitbase, launched on October 25th
- Nuxt UI, launched on October 21st
- Novu, launched on October 19th
- TileDesk Design Studio, launched on October 19th
- Appwrite Cloud Beta, launched on October 17th
- Komiser, launched on october 17th
- Pulumi ESC, launched on October 17th
- Taipy Cloud, launched on October 16th
- Cal.ai, launched on October 15th
- Distillery, launched on October 13th
- OpenSauced, launched on October 11th
- Swagger Editor, launched on October 11th
- ZenStack, launched on October 10th
- Payload 2.0, launched on October 9th
- Ddosify, launched on October 5th
- Evidence 2.0, launched on October 4th
- n8n LangChain integration, launched on October 4th
- Lenra, launched on October 2nd
- Best Hacktoberfest Projects, launched on October 1st
- Gitpod Browser Extension, launched on October 1st
Last updated on:
2023-10-31
Over to you
Who's launching an open-source product this month? Any projects that I missed?
Drop a link to your product launch in the comments, and I'll add it to the list.
Enjoy Hacktoberfest!
Top comments (12)
We actually built open source alternative to product hunt DevHunt.org
spot on, @johnrushx! signed up months ago and enjoying it. keep it up :)
thx :)
Amazing article!
thanks, @jonathimer :)
nice work Flo!
thanks, @mfts :)
What a wonderful trend to see. Look forward to support more open source product launches.
open source ftw!!1
Appreciate the feature!
you're welcome, @matijasos. enjoy your launch day!
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