The latest articles on DEV Community by Dorian (@dorianb). https://dev.to/dorianb https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F2602439%2F19a9c810-f13f-4054-9777-df080d894a2e.png https://dev.to/dorianb en Dorian Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:50:19 +0000 https://dev.to/dorianb/how-i-got-500-stars-on-my-first-open-source-project-3inb https://dev.to/dorianb/how-i-got-500-stars-on-my-first-open-source-project-3inb <p>I had never shared my work online before the last three months, this taught me a lot and was a great decision.</p> <h2> Open Source </h2> <p>There are many OSS projects out-there but i wasn't sure how to start. At the time i was experimenting to build an AI chat which led to the creation of ai inputs components, and i thought why not making more?</p> <p>What started initially with 20 components ended-up with more than 100+ and received continuous great feedbacks. Surprisingly, even few helpful people provided their own PR.</p> <h2> Sharing Online </h2> <p>I never built a public project before, this made me learnt a lot in the past three months, i started simply by:</p> <ul> <li>Share my Work on X, this <a href="https://x.com/dorian_baffier/status/1880291036410572934" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweet</a> got me a lot of views.</li> <li>Submit PR to Awesome List on Github</li> </ul> <p>This got me my first 100 stars. After that, peoples kept recommending Reddit, of course, i knew about it but had only used it for reading, never posting. Once i found the right subreddits, i made a few posts that got me a lot of visitors.</p> <p>Since then, <a href="https://kokonutui.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">KokonutUI</a> has gained a consistent daily traffic from different platforms and shared by many peoples!</p> <p>Have a great week</p> webdev opensource nextjs design Dorian Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:21:17 +0000 https://dev.to/dorianb/my-first-90-online-4081 https://dev.to/dorianb/my-first-90-online-4081 <p>I've seen a lot of peoples launching and sharing app online, but i had never launched an app myself before.</p> <p>For the background, recently i had to create a lot of invoices and i didn't want to pay for any products out there, so i build one for myself over few days.</p> <p>I focused on a simple and straightforward product with a straightforward UI:</p> <ul> <li>A toolbar with actions (download pdf, discount etc.)</li> <li>A form file that represent the invoice</li> </ul> <p>It worked fine for my case, but i thought of, before sharing a few important features should be added:</p> <ul> <li>Multiples currency</li> <li>Templates</li> </ul> <p>Then, launched it on X/Twitter and done!</p> <p><iframe class="tweet-embed" id="tweet-1866761383775449127-457" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1866761383775449127"> </iframe> // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1866761383775449127-457'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1866761383775449127&amp;theme=dark" } </p> <p>Eventually after a few days it generated $90 (7 customers) which was quite unexpected. </p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F546d5czsrett96kw37t8.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F546d5czsrett96kw37t8.png" alt="income image" width="534" height="614"></a></p> <p>It was a nice experience, and so, i decided to make another app soon!<br> wish you all the best</p> saas webdev showdev startup