I have a not-for-profit project, that I enjoy and use extensively.
However, it doesn't seem to attract a natural flow of new users.
I tried to post about it on Twitter, Google Plus, Reddit, Hacker News.
Each post brings tens to hundreds of visits to a landing page, few stars, occasional PRs.
I'm sure there are people, who will like the project as much as I do, but how do I find them?
I looked at the project and I think the issue here is unrealistic expectations.<p>I think you're doing pretty good in terms of attracting people to your project but, to use startup terms, there is no project-market fit.<p>It's a tool for people who can write their own recipes and are comfortable running a unix service.<p>There's a very small number of people who are even capable of using such tool.<p>On top of that, the value is too low. I'm capable of setting this up but I don't care enough about being e-mailed about Github API release notification (or other scenarios in your docs) to go through the hassle.<p>As far as constructive feedback goes. If you want to make your project more useful:<p>* focus on recipes. Each new recipe is potentially additional marketing. Make recipes more prominent in your docs<p>* make a publicly available instance where people can create accounts and use it without self-hosting. Maybe there's even a business there<p>* more notification options (Slack seems like a no-brainer). Or even turn it into IFTTT-like system<p>* keep writing more posts, blogging, using twitter, posting to HN etc. Those are valid marketing tools, just don't expect miracles.<p>I would still not get your hopes up. You might end up doing a lot of work and still not have a product-market fit.
Try finding more specific places to share it - globally broadcasting it on twitter it will just be lost in the noise; find a specific niche community that would really appreciate your project and share there.<p>However, I will say I think there's probably not much "market" for your app. It seems like it's just a wrapper for what can already be done with webhooks and slack.