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Post each new version to r/selfhosted every month, humbly, and ask for a star
Founder says the subreddit welcomes repeat release posts; no numbers
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What they did
Self-promo gets filtered or banned elsewhere on Reddit, but r/selfhosted wants open-source posts, including every new version. Post monthly with each release listing the new features; be humble and down to earth, write like building in public, say 'I' not 'we', and ask for a star. Cross-post to r/webdev and r/programming, and for AI projects r/LocalLLaMA, r/agent or r/langchain.
What happened
Claimed; subreddit users want to see each new release
- Stage
- growth
- Effort
- Monthly, every release
“Make sure you ask for a star, make sure you're super humble, down to earth. Do it like a building in public. Use 'I', not 'we', and post it every month in /r/selfhosted. That at least was my thing.”
“But the nice thing about open source is that if you have something in open source and you go to SelfHosted, people just waiting for you to post there and do a totally self-promotion for yourself.”
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