Show HN: Lessons learned from my 10 year open source project I've been developing SpiderFoot (an OSINT/recon tool) for 10 years now, so wanted to share my story and try to distill some lessons learned in the hope they might be helpful to others here who might be considering writing/open-sourcing their own tools. Here's the post: https://ift.tt/VteTSIy And the repo if you want to check it out: https://ift.tt/pfMPdcw -- TL;DR version of lessons from the post.. Lesson 1: Writing open source software can be very rewarding in ways you can’t predict Lesson 2: Be in it for the long haul Lesson 3: Ship it and ship regularly Lesson 4: Have broad, open-ended goals Lesson 5: If you care enough, you’ll find the time Lesson 6: No one cares about your unit test coverage Lesson 7: There’s no shame in marketing Lesson 8: Clear it with your employer Lesson 9: Foster community Lesson 10: Keep it enjoyable -- I hope you find it useful and inspires some of you to get your project out there! Feel free to ask me any questions here and I'll do my best to answer. February 11, 2022 at 02:46AM
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application. It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits. OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later. Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://ift.tt/2g8lasH and https://ift.tt/3nR9PzS shows what was recently released. [0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interestin...
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