Three weeks of launching an open-source product: 27 stars, 270 sessions, 0 comments

说明与用途

Deckgauge 在发布后三周获得了 27 个 GitHub 星标、183 位网站用户和 0 位付费客户。最大的流量提升来自一次免费的 YouTube 演示。

问题

Launching an open‑source product with measurable impact while managing limited marketing resources.

结果

Deckgauge achieved modest growth: 27 GitHub stars, 183 site users, and no paying customers after three weeks, with the largest traffic boost from an unpaid YouTube demo.

工作流

• 1. Developed Deckgauge and hosted it publicly.
• 2. Launched on Product Hunt, a Reddit megathread, dev.to, listing sites, and a YouTube channel.
• 3. Spent $54 on advertising.
• 4. Monitored GitHub stars, site traffic, article views, and comments.
• 5. Analyzed traffic sources, noting a YouTube demo doubled direct traffic.
• 6. Reflected on lessons learned and future actions.

证据

GitHub: 27 stars, 3 forks (it was 1 star before launch)

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Site traffic: 183 users in September. August gave us 61.

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The single best source wasn't a submission form. It was a YouTuber with 55,000 subscribers demoing the board on screen for 38 seconds — The Next New Thing, who found the repo, argued with me about whether it should exist, then demoed it anyway.

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Every directory and submission channel we paid or applied for produced less than that one unpaid segment.

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