[Sir_Cmpwn]

The same reason I start all of my projects: it didn't exist and I thought it ought to, so I made it.

[spectramax]

How did you get first users to sign up on SH?

[Sir_Cmpwn]

I generally use my blog to announce new projects:

https://drewdevault.com

I'd been talking about SourceHut here and there in passing in various blog posts, and reaching out to people to invite them to a private alpha in the months leading up to the public alpha, then the service was somewhat seeded when the public alpha announcement went up:

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...