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by kristopolous 3985 days ago
Libraries that can be explained quickly and have good marketing material gain traction.

The popularity of my projects appear to be nearly inversely proportional to their amount of complexity and sophistication. Things I've been refining over 5 years like (https://github.com/kristopolous/EvDa) has a userbase of 1, while my occasionally evening hacks have significantly more traction.

At least for me, working long and hard on things I believe are of value and writing tests, dogfooding, and documentation basically means it's just going to be used by me ... bizarre but true.