Nice post. The first 100 stars are most certainly the most important 100, and while stars and attention are perhaps a shallow indication of true value, we are humans and we need signals like this sometimes. 😄

Such an amazing post. I followed each and every step and honestly my project readme looks more simpler and cooler than ever. Have a look

node@v10.16.0 or higher
npm@6.9.0 or higher
git@2.17.1 or higher

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/rahuldkjain/minimal-portfolio.git

# Go into the repository
$ cd minimal-portfolio

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

# Run 
$ npm run dev

The trouble I have is that as a developer first and a designer second (if at all) I have trouble making nice graphics to promote my stuff (kudos to you by the way, the rando.js graphics are gorgeous).
I recently made a website Mix Capsule (auto-generate time-capsule playlists on Spotify) and added as much styling/branding as I could to the website and the repo but am struggling to make it as nice as some projects I see here. I'm wondering if people have general tips for programmers turned designers or anything specific to my case?

I would like feedback to ysv. This is a command line program which reads CSV data from stdin and accepts a configuration file name as a command line argument. Its job is to create a new CSV file based on that configuration. Example configuration:

version: 1
columns:
  year:
    - input: year
  make:
    - input: make
    - uppercase
    - replace:
        MERCEDES-BENZ: MERCEDES
  model:
    - input: model
    - uppercase

The purpose is to simplify ETL jobs and clean data before it gets into a database. Stage of development is very early, as is my level of understanding Rust.

I have seen that a lot of tedious work has to be done to clean up data, standardize column names and formats, and this tool aims to resolve that pain using a simple DSL.

Really good and informative read! Thanks for sharing.

Nice post, I will try it out!
Also, npm-package-deployer is a NPM package that helps you release versions of your NPM packages. You can also automate the process via GitHub Actions!
Feel free to read my post about it here if you're interested.

Nice tips! Let me promote some of my projects (and I wish I can reach more people with my works that I work really hard to make):

• obsidian: A Rust web framework which we aim to make it more developer-friendly (as people always say Rust is hard to learn). It is still on an early stage, and we are discussing about how do we make it become a productivity tool for developers.
• aion: A friendly Rust utility crate for duration and datetime.

// It allows you to write the duration and datetime like this
2.days(); // Duration for 2 days
2.seconds(); // Duration for 2 seconds
2.hours().from_now(); // Datetime for 2 hours from now
7.days().ago(); // Datetime for 1 week ago
1.weeks().ago(); // Datetime for 1 week ago

• redux-flipper and flipper-plugin-redux-debugger: a redux middleware for debugging your redux state in React Native and Flipper

Great advice, I'm going to add a nice logo to js-coroutines as it's currently looking rather sad! I made an effort with the website but less so on the GitHub. Can't seem to get JavaScript Weekly interested sadly.

Thanks for the post! Starred your repo as many in the comments 😄. I like the shadow image on your readme. Looks better than the regular shadow. Which tool do you use to create the moving shapes in your gif logo?

Find a python webhook repo for people who want to create fb messenger bots below:

Hey @nastyox, followed all your guidelines and getting some traction already for GitGuardian's shield: github.com/GitGuardian/gg-shield (scan your files and detect potential secrets or issues in your code). Thanks!

Omg the amount of effort... I felt like I went back in time and had to chase my wife all over again....

This is really good advice. Especially for people starting out with Github when a lot of questions come to mind and block you from actually taking part or doing something because you think "is this the right way to do it?".

The best way is to just do it then iterate as you go along and i think posts like this go a long way to helping people do that.

thanks!

Nice write-up. Congrats on your library! I think first and foremost is to create something valuable, something you want to use yourself is a good starting point, and like you discussed I think a lot of people fail to polish up the presentation of their work to make it more appealing

Nice article I've added two of my projects to JavaScripting. sysend.js library that allow to send messages between open tabs or windows including cross domain. and jQuery Terminal. I have also another project I would like to share which is LIPS Scheme based language written in JavaScript. I need to add logo to master branch README as well, it will be awhile until I'll made 1.0 version that I'm working on in devel branch.

Informative post. I always envy the repo which has a lot of stars and it was very hard for me to go beyond 5. I will try to apply these tips for my next opensource tool and post the result here. Thank you @nastyox

Why isn't #1 "make something that people want to use"?

This is an amazing article♥️. I would like to advertise React Native WiFi & Hotspot Wizard which is a react native library I am working on to configure WiFi & Hotspot settings programmatically.

SyncPaint is a web app for group drawing. Draw together with other people in real time.

Great tips :)!

I feel obliged to point everyone to Goodhart's law.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Do not Crete fake GitHub accounts to star your own project. GitHub will catch you, GUARANTEED.

😱😱😱

Nice post. My personal record for star is 3(including me) 😑

Awesome article. Am really looking forward to promoting fractio, an eel based tool for calculating document statistics such as character, word and sentence count. It also calculates estimated reading time and assigns the document a readability score.

Honestly for me it's just the point on a concise intro and example with no fluff.
I don't care about the pretty side as I am most likely there to consume a package or cannibalise some snippets!

A logo or a couple of images are OK, but I personally dislike OTT readme's with tons of large images which mean I have to scroll all over the place to tie bits together!

"Assassin is a decentralized database that hires web workers to kill slow JavaScript."

Does that make sense? How can I make it clearer? I feel like not too many people understand the power of web workers.

LOL is a python package with various utilities. It has various data types like Integer, String, static or dynamic Array, Maps, etc.

It also contains a JSON-based datastore with serializers.

Besides that, it has an argument parser for command-line applications, input, and password prompt, and switch cases

It comes along with a python project generator

The documentation is still under development

Please check out the Github repository

github.com/pranavbaburaj/lol

Trex is a Package management for deno but maintaining the deno philosophy. packages are cached and only one import_map.json file is generated.

Btw awesome post!

Awesome points! Most of them I'm already trying to realize, mostly depends on how much time I can spend on a project. I also like badges in a Readme, to have quick information about the repo at first glance.

Here is one of my own projects:

Agreed. I remember I was so happy to have reached my first 50 stars and have not move far enough as I am busy maturing the tool than running a campaign. But now, it seems I had bit more time :) Appreciate your stars guys! :D

I just made some of your suggestions on my project yuniql, thanks for the tips! yuniql.io is a database schema versioning and migration tool for postgresql, sqlserver and others. Hope you find this useful in your future projects.

After reaching 500 stars lately on one of my repositories, I kept a lot of these in mind.

I think the biggest things are 1, 5, and 6. I truly believe all of the items you listed are crucial to getting solid foundation, but I think those are minimum to reach a broader audience (low and high tech users).

That being said, I think being able to find some sort of niche or a library that suits a relatively large community that isn't too obscure, will also really help. I know this sounds obvious and could be quite hard to do, but this isn't limiting to a particular tool. This could be anything. Some examples off the top of my head are: a tool to automatically update brew dependencies or maybe a tool for auto syncing your forked repositories.

I could see people Googling these "issues" and trying to find an easy way to improve their quality of life. I suppose what I'm trying to say here, is that you don't need to recreate Node.js (no shots at ry, coz it's cool what he did with deno 😎), but mostly finding something that you want to write and what potentially others may like. Mostly a hit-and-miss, so it's good if you enjoyed writing it to begin with 😊

This article is amazing!! Also struggling to create a bigger audience to my project!! Thank you so much for the article =)

About TotalCross (github.com/totalCross/totalcross): GUI creator for embedded and mobile devices that allows developers to build apps with low footprint, high performance and using a high level programming language like Java/Kotlin =) We want to provide a "community friendly" alternative to Qt

It's daunting to think that a platform like GitHub could begin to become more like a social media platform where instant gratification and validation becomes the key metric, but I guess that will be unavoidable in an environment where popularity drives exposure.

I use GitHub explore more than I use an social feed admittedly (with Dev being a close second) and revel in the chance to read up on how something has been done in the real world. My experience as a "learner" is what motivates me to star repositories.

I have recently just opened up the source to an app I built, Skribul in hopes to receive feedback, teach what I've learned while building something that is "real world" usable. I'm proud of this small project and hope I can share knowledge with more and less experienced developers. Collaboration is more than welcomed.

For those who use IntelliJ IDEA, I've created a fun plugin waifu-motivator-plugin it's a simple and open-sourced Jetbrains IDE plugin that your waifu motivates you and helps you work on your coding challenges. It's published in the marketplace, you can directly install it from the IDE via Settings | Plugins | Marketplace or you can install it from here

I think there's a lot of difference between repos of js projects, that get a looots of visits when everything is configured, and other projects with different languages.

Django is extremely popular, and I shared the link of my project (on french & english tech websites) in april. I got some stars & views on the repo, but then there have been less and less visits (there is now ~20 people/week visiting the repo).

Through the stargazers count is still growing slowly:

Nice post. You make a lot of good points. My friends and I are currently developing and promoting SimplQ, a virtual web-based queue management system. Adding here so it gets a little more traction :).

There's fcd which I recently made.

I also wrote a post on it. It contains an explanation of what it does and how it does it.

Excerpt:

Ever had to type out a long cd ~/Sites/Projects/project, find out the path is wrong, rewrite it to cd ~/Sites/Sandbox/project? You just wasted a minute or two. This inspired me to create a tool: fcd.

fcd is a utility which helps you cd faster on macOS.

You can directly use it in place of cd like so:

  $ fcd some/path/here

I just open sourced my own project: colorschemes.dev! About to go ahead and try to get some people to see it now. This was helpful, I hope to get some traction with this!

All things said in the article are really helpful, especially the community and newsletter links. Thanks for the article. I did the same and got more than 30 stars.

By the way, here's my project

Thank you for the tips. I'll try to complete the missing steps for our repo. Although we have quite a few years of history, we are new on GitHub. So some welcome hugs (stars) would be appreciated. :)

Pull requests are also more than welcome. You may check our contribution guidelines to see how you can start developing quickly.

Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.

Very nice post, I'm trying to follow it right now, don't have enough karma to post in reddit yet :( but I'm getting there

I've made a post about my project here on dev.to, is a app to extract styles from a figma project and save it directly in your code
dev.to/____marcell/extract-figma-d...

Great post! I'll definitely be following some of your advice.

A project I've been working on lately is meme-type, a translator for internet speak.

For example, entering "include your repo link" with the "CLAPS 👏 AND 👏 ALL 👏 CAPS" option would return "INCLUDE 👏 YOUR 👏 REPO 👏 LINK"

tsParticles - TypeScript Particles

A lightweight TypeScript library for creating particles. Dependency free (*) and browser ready!

Particles.js converted in TypeScript, dependency free (*), improved with new cool features and various bugs fixed and it's currently under development!

github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles

Helpful post!

Github Resume Generator is a place where you can generate your very personalized Github profile overview and save it. Visit the repository here.

Hi there! I'd like to introduce the Debugger. It helps you to receive logs, dump outputs from your application and display them in a readable way. It is fully opensource.Debugger is a beautiful, lightweight web server built on Laravel and VueJs that helps debugging your app. It runs without installation on multiple platforms via docker and supports symfony var-dumper, monolog, sentry, smtp and spatie ray package. Github repo github.com/debugger-server/debugge...
I need your feedback and stars :)

Taking this advice for CodeStream, a set of editor extensions to make it easy to collaborate on code. Really great writeup with lots of good advice. The shields were surprisingly easy to implement.

Hello and thank you for this awesome article. I'm kind of new to Github (learnt it all this summer) and I'm slowly digging in into the community. So far I'm trying to migrate all my local projects to git, and I was really wondering how I will ever attract other people.

This article will be my checklist from now on! Thank you again. Here's one of my "hard-worked" repos:

Hi check my automatic mailing system python script, Currently I am working on next version of it and making it a complete snap package.

github.com/scienmanas/CertiMailer

Great post! I have really struggled with getting stars on my projects in the past year. I would love some feedback on my most recent projects DisStreamChat and Twitchio-js 😀

Here I customized mine.

Great advice! I'm going to add a nice social media preview to DisStreamChat, I didn't even know that was a thing 😅! I made an effort with the website but less so on the GitHub. Can't seem to get many people interested yet, sadly. Also, I would some feedback on the readme. thanks!

cypress-boilerplate
Quickly generate new projects, and start coding immediately with an already pre-configured project. While using this boilerplate you and your team can focus more on coding, and less wory about configuration. This boilerplate is full of useful plugins already configured, and much more! Good luck!

Hi guys, I have implemented a python package for django which automatically determines the correct use of select_related, prefetch_related and only methods for a rest-framework serializer. We are using it in our company in two projects and looking forward to hear from other developers about their opinions. Any pull request or issue is appreciated. If you want to help, you can check it out on auto-related.

Thanks for writing this article.

Shameless plug. This is a serverless plugin I recently made: github.com/robin-thomas/serverless...

Getting the first 100 starts will definitely be the hardest.

Open source webapp to store notes in your github repository.

github.com/vivekweb2013/gitnoter

Great post, thank you!

So I take my turn 🤓.

I've created a little node.js project where you can send ZPL/ZPLII code to zebra label printers -> zpl-rest.

zpl-rest provides the following

• REST-API to manage labels (written in ZPL), printer and to print these labels
• a simple graphical user interface for this REST-API
• you can use mustache in your ZPL-Code
• you can preview the result of your ZPL-Code
• you can test print your ZPL-Code
• you can review and reprint printjobs
• you can use placeholder in your ZPL labels (${varname}) which will be replaced through the API

Your feedback is welcome.

Great post, really on point! Here is what our team worked on over the past weeks and aiming to shoot some ⭐⭐⭐ - A Ready-to-use Node.JS REST API for classification of disturbing images. Feedback & comments are highly appreciated! 😉

Nice article, I ve made this package github.com/adrien2p/medusa-extender and I am wanting to get some feedback. Also, Ive re worked the documentation and design but I don’t know if it is enough 😊 I would appreciate some feedback guys

I have several open-source projects.

Monoreact is a workspace implementation for the react ecosystem. Replaces lerna, tsdx, nx, and others. At the moment, I develop it and hope to release the first stable version in the next month. That's why I don't have full documentation so far.

Routeshub is a route manager library that provides the opportunity to handle routes in declarative design

Hey 👋 really nice post!

Could I get some feedback on github.com/adrien2p/medusa-extender its an extension of medusa that allow modular architecture as well as extending entities, repositories, services and much more features 😎

Just a quick project promotion that you guys may want or need, since a lot of people struggle finding the correct software to use for recording.

I've created a Windows recorder (for Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11) with customizable features especially for games like Minecraft/Roblox/etc.

Discord Server: discord.gg/fXT2bCMyn4
Download at: github.com/Pronner/OpenRecorder/re...

We support x86 (for x32), x64 processors as well as computers that have average/bad specs. ORS is mainly for computers that are weak/slow, and if your computer is very good then expect amazing gameplay.

Thanks, and happy recording 📸

Great post, thanks a lot!
RPort.io is a self-hosted open source remote management solution for Windows & Linux. Intuitive, easy to use inventory management, remote access, script execution, VPN replacement, automation, and much more.

Great post and exactly what I was looking for being totally green in this field.

I created Swiffy Slider which is a Super fast and lightweight slider and carousel. The project was sparked when we could not find somethings light and fast enough and that was easy to use.

So now it is getting it to live time - another new challenge in this project and quite fun.

Thank you for your article! Now off to make a new some sharing image!

I have made a new Readme.md for my project a popup framework for Angular. Can you please give me a feedback? What do you think, is it eye catching enaugh? (Time of posting: 18 stars) github.com/costlydeveloper/ngx-awe...

TerraGen3D 3D Procedural Terrain Generation Tool in OpenGL/C++(Node editor based workflow as well as Layer based workflow)
Link to GitHub : github.com/Jaysmito101/TerraGen3D
Link to Source Forge : sourceforge.net/projects/terragen3d/

Liquid is a open source highly customizable authentication and user management system for your projects based on TypeScript, MongoDB and Redis. ✨

True. My Github repo just blew up with views. Thanks to Nastyox and his tips. Mine got 1333 visitors and 948 unique visitors in hours. Thank you so much Nastyox. You just got yourself a like, unicorn, bookmark, and a follower.

github.com/MatthewTamYT/Python/tre...
Car Brand Listing Game is a program where you try and guess car brands and list them out. It is a raw piece of code but it delivers the purpose on point! Please check it out!

github.com/projectsveltos

Kubernetes itself is not a complete solution. To build a production cluster, you need various additional addons like CNI or CoreDNS. Addon management has been a problem for a long time. Sveltos wants to figure out the best way to install, manage and deliver cluster addons. It does so by providing declarative APIs allowing to easily deploy Kubernetes addons across multiple Kubernetes clusters.

github.com/Adarsh9315/express-rest...

It's an express.js rest API framework. It's written in typescript. It's a production-ready framework with all kinds of routing and CORS modules handled. it also supports email functionality. It has 3 built-in functions which are login, register, and send a confirmation email.

That's awesome! However, you did miss a free way to advertise in your post. There are a lot of awesome lists on Github. For example, I put my NCOVDashboard on this awesome list for Coronavirus related projects. There are other lists too, like some for python, go, PHP, etc.