How to show the world your Opensource project?

Question

open source

Recently I wanted to upload a number of recent developments to Opensource - small C ++ libraries made for myself, highly appreciated by colleagues and acquaintances. Thought they might be useful to a wider range of people. And when people from the outside need your code, the motivation to work on it further increases.

However, I want to not just "throw good into the water" to thousands of nameless repositories - but also get some kind of feedback. For someone to see, try, praise, scold. And then the question arose in full growth ... but how do opensource projects show the world? How do projects become known?

It is clear that you need to put it in a public repository, make good documentation, you can make a web page, and ... and how will people learn about my development?
Are there any standard ways, directories, something?

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Start a repository, write intelligible documentation, add a link with a description to all sorts of software directories, knock on those who write on all sorts of ENTs and Reddits, or even the article on Habré itself.
If the developments are useful, I am sure that very soon they will come to your turnips with requests for improvements, pull requests and bugs. IMHO, it is important at this moment to somehow adequately respond.

Answer 2

github/gitlab. now "type center" according to the source.
add a good description.
now everything is search, the location of the object is less important than the seo-quality of the description :(

Answer 3

preferably a site with a description - Google will index the site faster than github
, and arrange the libraries themselves so that people can use the description, examples, tests, how to compile, and so on,
but the main libraries should usually be useful for what others are not interested in.