Many of us write opensource code in a void: nobody ever looks at it, uses it nor reviews it. We are the only users and authors.

In order to improve, where can we get our code reviewed? I don’t mean professionally, just from like-minded individuals.

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    10 months ago

    There is a very effective approach (34:00), that big companies like cloudflare use, to ship a product in a fast and quality way. It bears parallels to what you are describing

    1. Just build a proof of concept
    2. Discard the prototype no matter what and start from scratch keeping the initial feedback in mind
    3. Build something internally that you yourself will use