[susam]

Have you tried doing a "Show HN" post for your project? Creating a "Show HN" post is often a good way to get some attention and feedback for your project provided your post receives a few early upvotes in the first 30-40 minutes and reaches the front page.

[byteface]

I had considered but it's not quite good enough yet. I posted on reddit once and got 1 upvote and 1 comment. aha. Think it's as I did it really late on a sunday. Timing is everything. But it hepled me a lot with not stressing too much about posting.

[kristopolous]

For this project and content on the net in general, You should generally show a compelling answer to the following questions within a few seconds:

What is this? Why do I care? Why is this exciting? Do I like this?

At least for me I can't answer those questions when I see your project. Maybe I'm stupid or ignorant and you simply don't want to reach me, alright fine.

Also some projects simply cannot fit into this box.

Sometimes reader enlightenment is required to see value. Those are the hardest ones.

Essentially your task is to convince the reader that you have an answer to things they never thought to question or connect together and your proposed way of doing things fixes problems they thought were just the way of the world.

That's why my more sophisticated projects do much worse than my simpler fun ones and why silly things do so well and hard things do so poorly.

There is value to solving hard problems but as the new patterns form, people forget so the appreciation of great achievement is often fleeting.

So I dunno, people suck and life is hard. Whatever

[byteface]

I think you're right. The project changed direction several times. from being a tag generator and a general wrapper before settling on trying to port the DOM. I still need to take it beyond being a curiosity. In ways I avoid wokring on those aspects that make something 'useful' as for me it kills the drive so I work around that aspect doing all the other bits first. And end up picking up on lots of tits bits that others don't. But I should probably fill in more of the expected functionality. It's a habit I got into to keep me engaged on a project.