How to Find Contributors For Your Open Source Project

Contributors can make or break your project. Here's how to find them.

How do you find contributors for your open source project? Well... it all starts with toasters, er, building a community. So follow along with me while I take you on a journey that involves toasters, millennials, vanlife, erlang and finally a full a community full of contributors to your open source project.

Finding contributors is way more than just hunting down people to contribute code. Why would someone contribute to your project if they don't even use it, let alone feel absolutely passionate about it?

So this video explains how to gain open source contributors by building a community of users first, the contributors second. I hope you find it amusing!

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[xylarwardhan]

"Literally dozens of dollars" 😭

[ObtecularPk]

But I'm an avocado loving hipster 😐