Lessons building two Open Source projects to 20,000+ GitHub stars
Fred Schott is the founder of Astro.build and the Astro technology company. Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries. Snowpack is a lightning-fast frontend build tool, designed for the modern web. Before this, Fred founded Pika. What we discussion: What is Astro and what is it doing? (0:00) What’s changed in the web over the last 10 years. (2:20) Astro’s unique model of building an open source company. (4:51) Pika was the first project that I really sunk my teeth into. (11:15) Why is it so bad to create a slack channel for your open source project? (14:00) What it’s like at the beginning of an open source project. (16:26) The importance of having fun working on something that’s your own. (22:29) The importance of dog-fooding and how to use it. (26:13) How do you get people to use the tool if they’re not already using it? (29:16) Links: Fred's Twitter https://twitter.com/FredKSchott Astro https://astro.build/ Snowpack https://www.snowpack.dev/ 5 Things I Learned Building Snowpack to 20,000 Stars https://dev.to/fredkschott/5-things-i-learned-while-building-snowpack-to-20-000-stars-b9d 6 More Things I Learned Building Snowpack to 20,000 Stars (Part 2) https://dev.to/fredkschott/5-more-things-i-learned-building-snowpack-to-20-000-stars-5dc9
Fred Schott is the founder of Astro.build and the Astro technology company. Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed. Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries. Snowpack is a lightning-fast frontend build tool, designed for the modern web. Before this, Fred founded Pika. What we discussion: What is Astro and what is it doing? (0:00) What’s changed in the web over the last 10 years. (2:20) Astro’s unique model of building an open source company. (4:51) Pika was the first project that I really sunk my teeth into. (11:15) Why is it so bad to create a slack channel for your open source project? (14:00) What it’s like at the beginning of an open source project. (16:26) The importance of having fun working on something that’s your own. (22:29) The importance of dog-fooding and how to use it. (26:13) How do you get people to use the tool if they’re not already using it? (29:16) Links: Fred's Twitter https://twitter.com/FredKSchott Astro https://astro.build/ Snowpack https://www.snowpack.dev/ 5 Things I Learned Building Snowpack to 20,000 Stars https://dev.to/fredkschott/5-things-i-learned-while-building-snowpack-to-20-000-stars-b9d 6 More Things I Learned Building Snowpack to 20,000 Stars (Part 2) https://dev.to/fredkschott/5-more-things-i-learned-building-snowpack-to-20-000-stars-5dc9