Did you get any traction from your existing efforts? Maybe someone using your work can promote it to their users, or you do something in their project to increase your visibility to them, that kind of thing.
I got the most traction from the subreddit I posted it on. FYI I am measuring traction based on how many GitHub stars that repo got (which is a bad way to measure I know). But good idea, cheers!
I'd forget all about stars and just find some people to actually use your software, bend over backwards to make sure they have a good experience, and amongst these people find and cultivate advocates for using it and projects that can promote how your software is helping.