Ask HN: How do you show your free software projects to the world?

  • Posted 3 hours ago by MaxwellJensen
  • 3 points
Hello.

As in the title, how do you show your free (as in freedom) software projects to the world? I like creating useful niche tools for my personal workflow in Linux, but often these things scale to something more than just simple things for my use. Adding sophisticated interfaces to CLI tools through relatively simple means, like cobra in Go, is a compelling idea. There are many frameworks to make fully-featured CLI tools easily and quickly. I feel like these tools could be beneficial and interesting to the public, but these tools have to be visible first to be tried.

However, the websites for discussing software seem to be pretty much just Hacker News and Reddit. Subreddits have a blanket ban on self-promotion, even if it is free software. Show HN looked like an option, but apparently new accounts cannot post on it.

I have heard some suggestions like Dev.to, a very dead website, and afterwards even more dead websites.

Is there anything left?

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