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Discussion on: Four lessons I learned from maintaining a 10k stars project on Github

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Olivier Guimbal • Edited

Totally agree. Go tell Evan You that he shouldnt have started Vuejs because Angular or React was already a thing... I'm pretty sure he faced that same critique back then.

It is nonetheless not pleasant to read. So you just have to be prepared to face:

  • A substential amount of potentially soul destroy critiscism (even though you're working for free)
  • A somewhat dehumanized ROI (very few people actually say "thanks")
  • A non negligible amount of work in order to communicate around your project (or have luck to see it go viral)

But yes, apart from that, if you're not misplacing your hopes in seeing your hard work becoming the next React, working on OS is very cool. You just have to be aware that there is little relationship between quality of your work and stars.

ps: thanks for your ⭐😏