Ask HN: I am creating a project on opensource,how to gather people to contribute

[nimitbhardwaj]

I am working on a project involving transferring of sound from android to some port of PC, and a python library at the backend can get the voice and use it in other applications, with the enthusiasm of OS I want to gather more people around and want to collaborate, how this is possible. I have seen big repos like Python-Requests, Beautiful Soup etc there are many of the contributors they contribute to a cause, how can I make my repo like this.

[amilajack]

You need users first. Users become contributors. Some contributors become long term contributors. To get an initial user base I'd recommend following this checklist I've created: https://github.com/amilajack/project-checklist. Also replying quickly to issue requests helps retain users over time, which indirectly increases the number of people that become contribute over time.

[nimitbhardwaj]

Okk, Thank you very much