My simple GitHub project went Viral

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  • languagetool

    Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

    As an alternative there is LanguageTool[†], for which you can run your own server so the data isn't given to an extra party at all. We've been using it in [DayJob] for a while, and I use it at home too, and it does a decent job.

    From my relatively experience of Grammarly (I had an account a couple of years ago) a self-hosted instance of LT is slightly better than Grammarly "free" but doesn't have the extra analysis offered by Grammarly's paid accounts.

    [†] https://languagetool.org/

  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

    I usually check r/selfhosted and awesome-selfhosted repo on GitHub[0].

    [0] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • Command-line-text-processing

    Discontinued :zap: From finding text to search and replace, from sorting to beautifying text and more :art:

    I had a similar experience with one of my GitHub repos [0] that is currently 9k+ stars. I added donation link when it was about 5k stars (after it went viral courtesy HN). But this was before GitHub sponsors. I removed donation links after I got only a single donation in about a year.

    I had much better results when I started converting my tutorials into ebooks and sold them. Obviously having a paid product is different, but I'm referring to the paid sales I got whenever I put up 'pay what you want' offer.

    [0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...

  • I had a similar experience with one of my GitHub repos [0] that is currently 9k+ stars. I added donation link when it was about 5k stars (after it went viral courtesy HN). But this was before GitHub sponsors. I removed donation links after I got only a single donation in about a year.

    I had much better results when I started converting my tutorials into ebooks and sold them. Obviously having a paid product is different, but I'm referring to the paid sales I got whenever I put up 'pay what you want' offer.

    [0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...

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