Clipboard.js: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days?
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After finding water on Mars.. that was the only thing that was missing from the humanity.. :alien:
lipis
on 1 Oct 2015
Hacker News maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301881
stan
on 2 Oct 2015
Came here from Hacker news (y)
imom39a
on 2 Oct 2015
+1 Hacker news
mavrick
on 2 Oct 2015
It has nothing to do with Hacker News. Here are few different factors that contributed to that:
- Experience: I've been working with open source for a while now. I gave more than 70 talks and built many projects over the last years. There was a LOT of hard work involved and lessons learned along the way.
- Credibility: Because of all those things I've done, lots of people started to follow me not only on GitHub (~3k) but also on Twitter (~20k). I try to offer as much value as I can for those followers every day. That translates to a broader reach whenever I need to share something I've built.
- Docs & demos: 99% of developers complain that nobody cares about their code on GitHub. How you expect people to use something if you don't teach them? My advice is that you need to spend more time writing and improving your documentation than writing code.
- Timing: On September 1, I read this article about Mozilla starting to support execCommand. At that article they said "Firefox 41, which is currently in Beta, and slated to move to release in mid-September". I realized that was the missing part for this API to be adopted broadly. I wrote clipboard.js in a private repo and waited until Firefox 41 was released.
- Working is not enough: Most developers just make things work and that's it. I spent a good amount of time trying to make this library smaller, trying to make the public API easier, and refactoring the source code for better readability.
- Knowing your audience: Everybody hates Flash and everybody hates bloated frameworks. Everybody loves a simple API and everybody loves GitHub's copy to clipboard. If you don't know your audience, you don't know how to create something they'll like.
That's not everything, but I hope it encourage folks to realize it's not just about coding.
zenorocha
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
stan
on 2 Oct 2015
:heart:
addyosmani
on 2 Oct 2015
Awesome
ankurdebnath
on 2 Oct 2015
Came from hacker news (it was featured in their newsletter), but have seen on FB as well. And yes, the repo is very well structured for collaboration.
ebonet
on 2 Oct 2015
It has nothing to do with Hacker News.
It has a little bit to do with it, but still; great work on the bullet points.
mavrick
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
tpiros
on 2 Oct 2015
:cool:
mayankcpdixit
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
victorperin
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1: :+1:
elrumordelaluz
on 2 Oct 2015
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
That's my boy!
jaydson
on 2 Oct 2015
Plim plim, next level.
robsongajunior
on 2 Oct 2015
It seems that hacker news played a major role here. Anyway congratulations xD
FagnerMartinsBrack
on 2 Oct 2015
I'm sure there will be another upshot today as it received the #1 spot in this week's JavaScript Weekly email newsletter.
JamesMGreene
on 2 Oct 2015
Can anybody confirm if given the speed it reached 5k this is a github record? Just curious.
FagnerMartinsBrack
on 2 Oct 2015
@FagnerMartinsBrack https://github.com/stars?direction=desc&sort=stars is in the top 10
elrumordelaluz
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
LucasArruda
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
edmolima
on 2 Oct 2015
Nice answer
caiocutrim
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
Work hard, one day anyone will say you was lucky..
Xhamps
on 2 Oct 2015
@Xhamps tell me about it! hahaha
@zenorocha zenando!
franklinjavier
on 2 Oct 2015
I feel a disturbance in the force every time Zeno releases new stuff as if a million developers had their wishes granted...
soapdog
on 2 Oct 2015
Great answer.
felipepucinelli
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
MateusZitelli
on 2 Oct 2015
@zenorocha work hard, play hard!!!!
dleitee
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
ivosantiago
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
eduardocruz
on 2 Oct 2015
Such a great answer @zenorocha
ythecombinator
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
brunoksato
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
leandroh
on 2 Oct 2015
🏆
joshdance
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1:
ojacquemart
on 2 Oct 2015
One thing I noticed that a lot of people with sky-high stars on GitHub usually have in common is coding time and quality. It seems that hard work over time eventually pays off.
@zenorocha You didn't even added <famous developer here> to <project name here> to your project to get traction (not that I know of), this was awesome :+1:
nihey
on 2 Oct 2015
:clap: :star: great answer!!
jeanmatheussouto
on 2 Oct 2015
:+1: awesome stuff @zenorocha !!
supritashankar
on 2 Oct 2015
@FagnerMartinsBrack https://github.com/stars?direction=desc&sort=stars is in the top 10
That shows your personal stars, not github global. And I was talking about in a short period of time, not all time's :)
FagnerMartinsBrack
on 3 Oct 2015
@zenorocha one thing you forgot to add in your answer and I am pretty sure you are aware of (I can see from you first words) is:
;)
FagnerMartinsBrack
on 3 Oct 2015
Great!
KennedyTedesco
on 3 Oct 2015
Spot on!
bpassos
on 3 Oct 2015
:+1: @FagnerMartinsBrack, I love that "Start with why" video ;)
zenorocha
on 4 Oct 2015
@zenorocha First of all, nice work! :clap: Could you please take a look at this page and tell us what are the referring websites? GitHub gives us some interesting stats there! :sparkles:
IonicaBizau
on 4 Oct 2015
@zenorocha First of all, nice work! :clap: Could you please take a look at this page and tell us what are the referring websites? GitHub gives us some interesting stats there! :sparkles:
:+1:
FagnerMartinsBrack
on 4 Oct 2015
it solves a problem that we all seem to hide from 🙈
KhaledMohamedP
on 4 Oct 2015
@IonicaBizau :+1: I love stats.. :chart_with_upwards_trend: once screenshot of that page would be fun to watch :)
lipis
on 5 Oct 2015
got here from Smashing Magazine Web development reading list
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/web-development-reading-list-106/
balexandre
on 5 Oct 2015
:pray: for all dev's who will do all with passion like @zenorocha
arturparkhisenko
on 5 Oct 2015
:+1:
mihdan
on 5 Oct 2015
:+1:
reinaldorauch
on 11 Oct 2015
Awesome @zenorocha :clap: :+1:
ghost
on 16 Oct 2015
@zenorocha Are any plans to use
petabyte
on 29 Oct 2015
Hey @petabyte,
I haven't thought about that. Could you submit a PR?
zenorocha
on 29 Oct 2015
Vai @zenorocha :heart: :smile:
danilovaz
on 16 Nov 2015
10K: http://githubstats.lip.is/zenorocha :)
lipis
on 21 Dec 2015
:+1:
duyet
on 16 Feb 2016
great~~~
cristicVictory
on 14 Jul 2016
👍
kimorkim
on 14 Sep 2016
The coolest thing is that this issue is intentionally kept open, while people out there are willing to close all issues! :smile: Viva Brazil 🇧🇷
jbruni
on 29 Sep 2016
Come from china, via oschina.
It's awesome,may can help me deal with many problems！
Heier2013
on 28 Oct 2016
👍
wlwr
on 11 Nov 2016
:+1:
nelsonkuang
on 10 Mar 2017
@dandv I think that this 'issue' can be closed... ;-)
Ruffio
on 15 Sep 2017
牛逼啦
381510688
on 2 Apr 2019
@zenorocha Great lib, and I admire your dedication. Thanks!
I've been using it for a while, but still had some parts of my site using ZeroClip (Flash based.. ugh).
carpii
on 15 Aug 2019
In what way is this an issue? lol
JacobRReed
on 20 Sep 2019
@JacobRReed: GitHub issues are a convenient way to communicate publicly with the author(s) of a repo. They don't have to be "problems". I've creating issues congratulating maintainers for a job well done etc.
dandv
on 20 Sep 2019
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It has nothing to do with Hacker News. Here are few different factors that contributed to that:
That's not everything, but I hope it encourage folks to realize it's not just about coding.