Code it Aside: How to Plan, Launch, and Promote your Side-Project

In today’s episode, we talk about open source, developer
communities, and side-projects. Jesse Luoto from Reaktor Helsinki
shares his hard-earned lessons from planning, launching, and
promoting dozens of side projects of all shapes and sizes. What’s
the right balance between the speed and quality of your open
source project? When you should launch, how to promote your work,
and how to maintain it with the help of dev communities? Tune in
to get answers to these and many more questions.


Guest
Jesse Luoto is a full-stack developer and an open-source advocate
at Reaktor. Jesse is driven by imperfection and irritation. He
likes to solve practical problems and makes indie games in his
free time.

Hosts 
Anna Fröblom is a great programmer, problem-solver, hobby
photographer, lego enthusiast, and simply a nice person.

Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got
him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to
rapid-fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.



References


Google Analytics library (37M monthly downloads)


VerbalExpressions (12k stars)


Faker.js


Open collective (they have Fiscal Host service now!)


NoSX


Hacker News


Github


Twitter
 


About Reaktor


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