vrypan picks | Last Monday, I sat down to hack. After a few hours, I open sourced the code. By the end of the week, it had 1,000 watchers and 70 forks on ...

Last Monday, I sat down to hack. After a few hours, I open sourced the code. By the end of the week, it had 1,000 watchers and 70 forks on ...

posted on 15/02/2012 13:28

> Last Monday, I sat down to hack. After a few hours, I open sourced the code. By the end of the week, it had 1,000 watchers and 70 forks on GitHub, and 500 upvotes on Hacker News. It’s my favorite example of open source recently. Here’s why it worked. --From “Hack” to “Popular Project”

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Last Monday, I sat down to hack. After a few hours, I open sourced the code. By the end of the week, it had 1,000 watchers and 70 forks on ...