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Trung Vo

Count me in as the 53th star for doomcode. I would say I am always happy to see people star my repository. Why? Because they probably like my code or my contribution and they want to give it back, or to remember later on to visit.

Seeing github.com/trungk18/jira-clone-ang... growing from 4 stars among my dearest friend to a few hundred within days was really a journey that I have never experience 🀣

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Matteo Bruni

Teach me! I started a project in February and I haven't reached 1k stars yet, close but not reached yet.
Where did you share your project?

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Trung Vo • Edited

I think if you code something that people are looking to see, they will not hesitate to give you a star. Also, prepare a detailed README with as many screenshots as you can.

I built that with Angular and I shared it on:

  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Write a blog post on Medium

Luckily, It got the attention from people and some of them are quite famous among Angular community. They also retweeted about my project and that's how it is crossing a thousand stars πŸ˜‚ Count me as the 941th star yeah. But in exchange, you have to star mine 😎Just kidding and good luck!

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Matteo Bruni

The project is this: github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles

The main issue is visibility since it's an alternative to Particles.js (it's a Typescript rewrite with new features and bugfix tbh) there's a lot of articles/tutorial for the other project so it's hard for mine to gain visibility.

Many projects around particles.js are abandoned but this doesn't help much having visibility.

I tried getting some attention but I miss the big retweets. At least I'm having a lot of fun working with this project πŸ˜„

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Trung Vo

Yeah as long as you are happy working on that, that's enough. Maybe tag some famous fork when you tweet next time, ask for their opinion then?

When I start the first line of Jira clone, I wouldn't image one day I will have a thousand star repo πŸ˜‚ Anyway, I followed you on twitter. Looking for your next project man.