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Any tips on marketing an open-source platform? I built a SaaS starter kit (https://nextacular.co), which can definitely help would-be SaaS founders quickly launch their platforms. Let me know your ideas. ๐Ÿ˜
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Start writing content and share it where your audience is. For this Iโ€™d go for Reddit/Github/Dev.to
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Does this have PWA functions? The
next-pwa
Next.js plug-in is great (implementation being a couple lines on the
next.config.js
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Looks awesome reminds me of the next platforms repo or Bedrock by mx. We're also doing something similar for marketing websites https://mawla.agency/mawla-engine Your work looks great
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I commend you making it open source. Nice docs what did you use for them?? Figured it out - https://www.gitbook.com
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Thanks @Ivan! I'll take note of this. @Noah S, I haven't. Thanks for this information, I'll add that to the feature list. @Dan, yes! Bedrock is cool made by Max. I'll take a look at Mawla, that seems like a good marketing tool for founders. I'd love to learn a thing or two. Thanks for checking it out. ๐Ÿ˜โค๏ธ
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Hey @Arjay - this looks interesting. I too had launched an open-source project for the community some 2-3 months ago. Sub-reddit members initially took interest and started sharing with their network. So, Reddit helped a lot for me. If you want to checkout the project, hereโ€™s the link: https://ownstore.dev/
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If anyone is doing Reddit marketing and wants to understand now subreddits are related, I download all 300GB+ of comments from Reddit per month and run some nerd magic on it to understand how people in one subreddit belong in another, so I can give you lookalike audiences for Reddit. Here's an example for r/iPhone