I have an open source stock trading journal https://stjou.com/ that I personally use, but I can't get anyone else to try/use it.<p>What are your tips on marketing open source apps?<p>How can I figure out WHY people aren't using it? Is it ugly? Do people not trust it?<p>Any advice on how to get this in front of people that trade stocks ?<p>Thanks HN
It's unlikely open source matters to most of your target market. Any open source advice is typically geared towards developers as users.<p>Look at competitors products and what people say about them, then see how your project measures up.<p>I can say from experience, at this early stage, one or two users can give immeasurable feedback. Keep working on the product you want and a few will come along.<p>Writing posts can help. You want content that can be indexed by a search engine for the permanence. Forum / social / chat posts fade quickly into oblivion
I would change the text on the homepage "StJou - Made for idiots By idiots" and "Let's see how much money you've lost" might be funny but IMHO not appealing for financial data.<p>Have you done a <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/show">https://news.ycombinator.com/show</a> post for the project?
I don’t think your audience would care about oss, maybe focus on the free aspect and share it on hacker news show, Reddit, quora, and consider a product hunt campaign and LinkedIn promotion in relevant groups.<p>You’re going to write about it and link to it from forums your audience visits to learn, if you want to get their attention for free.