>> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team.
As a solo open source developer who maintains a popular OSS project, this is 100% the case. Sometimes it feels like big corporations are actively working against us. It's almost impossible to get any coverage at all on any kind of media. No matter how much organic growth your project has.
My project has been growing steadily and linearly for almost a decade. Now it has almost 6K stars on GitHub so you'd think that this by itself would draw some attention? Not so.
It's almost impossible to find it on Google search results. Most users find the project through direct word of mouth from other users of the project. We've never received a single consulting contract from any corporation.
As a solo open source developer who maintains a popular OSS project, this is 100% the case. Sometimes it feels like big corporations are actively working against us. It's almost impossible to get any coverage at all on any kind of media. No matter how much organic growth your project has.
My project has been growing steadily and linearly for almost a decade. Now it has almost 6K stars on GitHub so you'd think that this by itself would draw some attention? Not so.
It's almost impossible to find it on Google search results. Most users find the project through direct word of mouth from other users of the project. We've never received a single consulting contract from any corporation.