Original Summary

I run a small prompt tool called PromtExpress. Last week I split off everything that isn't the core product and made it MIT: JS and Python SDKs, a CLI, and a community prompt template library. The goal is to get outside contributors, not traffic. Week one, honestly: - 48 unique visitors to the repo, about half from Reddit - 1 outside contributor, who sent two templates - 295 npm downloads that are almost all mirrors and security scanners (both packages got exactly 134 downloads of the same version, which no human does) - 0 stars The useful part was the comments. Three Reddit replies turned into real changes: A validator that printed "0 templates valid" and exited 0 after a folder rename. It now fails on zero files and must reject a set of broken fixtures in CI. Two templates rewritten after someone pointed out they encouraged guessing. Contributor avatars now ship on the npm and PyPI package pages, not just in the repo. Someone argued a JSON author field is easy for a fork to strip, but the install path isn't. Repo: https://github.com/WebitroHQ/promtexpress-oss If you've tried open-sourcing part of a paid product, I'd like to hear what brought contributors in for you.   submitted by   /u/SnooDoubts4271 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/15 22:06:45