If a product wants to be successful, there are must be a group of loyal users of the product. Though their influence, more and more people get to know and product and start to use the product and again promote the product. The most difficult thing to promote a product after building an excellent product is to find the first bunch of users.For web products, same conditions apply, but the ways to promote the product may be more abundant. Besides the advertisement, there are other ways a web product owner can try. For example, a web product owner may want to build a community around the product a...

There's nothing like jsconf for bringing out the meta! Since the conference ended two blog posts have created a lot of buzz, at least within my own twitter bubble.First, Rebecca Murphey's JavaScript: It's a Language, Not a Religion. I take Rebecca's post as a cautionary tale about the dangers of hero-worship and the tendency to assume that the people we respect in one sphere share our views in other spheres. I bring it up here not because I want to discuss the content of her post but because I'm ripping off her title.The second blog post was Ryan Funduk's Our Culture of Exclusion. Ryan talk...

I spoke in the unconference at PHPUK last week, on running an open source project. I thought I would collect together my thoughts into one place before I lose the scratty piece of paper I wrote them down on. I'm not sure I'm the right person to be giving advice exactly, but these are the things that, having been project lead on joind.in for a while, I think are important.CommunityI love it when people share their code, just make something and publish it, but to my mind it isn't an open source project until it has people around it. There's nothing wrong with building something as a hobby, bu...