Just wondering what methods people have found success with for generating interest/traffice (read: usage) in their free and/or open-source projects/tools/etc? It seems like simply contributing to an existing, relatively popular project can be a little tough sometimes, as far as getting people to review/read and merge your patches, etc... it's often that much harder to generate any usage of a brand new project, and nothing is more de-motivating that writing something 'for the community', and then have no one use it... thoughts/suggestions/pointers/etc?(shameless self-promotion: the current project I'm talking about is http://github.com/sandbender/antistink ... it's intentionally left as-is in a Minimum Viable Product/Alpha state, not because I don't want to spend time polishing it, but would rather spend that time on other stuff if no one is going to use it except myself anyways :s )