Advertising a new Django open source project?

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Simon Connah

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Mar 24, 2018, 3:14:03 PM3/24/18
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Hi,

First of all, I am sorry because I know that this is off-topic but I couldn't think of a better place to ask the question.

I'm in the process of developing a cross between a blog, a media gallery and some essential e-commerce features which is designed for end users rather than other Django developers (much like Wordpress is although I am not saying my project is going to be anything like Wordpress). I want to advertise the project so that other people can help with its development and offer ideas on features as well as use it if they want to.

I have no idea where to advertise my open source project? Is there a decent place to make people aware of what I am doing? I'm fine doing all the backend tasks, but it would be great to have some help on the frontend design aspects. I can handle the JavaScript as well. I'm just not so hot on CSS.

Any help is appreciated.

Simon.

Egor Smolyakov

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Mar 24, 2018, 4:04:07 PM3/24/18
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Hello, Simon.

I had a similar question a few months ago when I advertised my project https://github.com/egorsmkv/simple-django-login-and-register

So, I posted the url of my project to these Reddit hubs:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/django/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/

Also, I posted the url to the show's section of Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

I think, it helps you.


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Simon Connah

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Hi Egor,

Thank you for the reply. When I get a bit nearer to completion I'll certainly follow your advice.

Thanks for the links.

Simon.

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Etienne Robillard

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Mar 25, 2018, 4:55:47 AM3/25/18
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Hi Simon,

You can also consider setting up a official website for your project.

Regards,

Etienne

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Simon Connah

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Mar 26, 2018, 1:34:19 PM3/26/18
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Well, I've opened up the repository if anyone is interested in taking a look. As I've said elsewhere, it is very early in development, but I have a couple of weeks where I should be able to dedicate a decent amount of time to get it working properly.

The main thing I'm a bit worried about is the design since I suck at that sort of thing.

The repo is here:


Dylan Reinhold

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Mar 26, 2018, 1:46:10 PM3/26/18
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One thing I noticed.

In your Blog model you are saving your slug every time.

If you are using the slug as your URL this means if a title is changed the URL will change and anyone who had the original URL will get a 404.
Probably not want you want.

Dylan

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:33 AM, 'Simon Connah' via Django users <django...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Well, I've opened up the repository if anyone is interested in taking a look. As I've said elsewhere, it is very early in development, but I have a couple of weeks where I should be able to dedicate a decent amount of time to get it working properly.

The main thing I'm a bit worried about is the design since I suck at that sort of thing.

The repo is here:

On Sunday, 25 March 2018, 09:55:21 BST, Etienne Robillard <tka...@yandex.com> wrote:


Hi Simon,

You can also consider setting up a official website for your project.

Regards,

Etienne


Le 2018-03-24 à 15:13, 'Simon Connah' via Django users a écrit :
Hi,

First of all, I am sorry because I know that this is off-topic but I couldn't think of a better place to ask the question.

I'm in the process of developing a cross between a blog, a media gallery and some essential e-commerce features which is designed for end users rather than other Django developers (much like Wordpress is although I am not saying my project is going to be anything like Wordpress). I want to advertise the project so that other people can help with its development and offer ideas on features as well as use it if they want to.

I have no idea where to advertise my open source project? Is there a decent place to make people aware of what I am doing? I'm fine doing all the backend tasks, but it would be great to have some help on the frontend design aspects. I can handle the JavaScript as well. I'm just not so hot on CSS.

Any help is appreciated.

Simon.
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Oh, good catch. I'll fix that tomorrow.

Thanks.


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