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by spectramax 2420 days ago
How did you get first users to sign up on SH?
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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...