Needs more Stars (Let's hit 1.1k!)

[coolaj86]

We did it! 🎉

Technically only 1,050 - but it bumped the counter in button. It's done.

Only 50 left. Let's Go!

"We're doing it Peter!" - Bangarang!

https://star-history.com/#webinstall/webi-installers&Date

Goal

We want to get curl https://webinstall.dev/foo | sh in the README of every relevant project.

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Ryan and I created this for ourselves and our clients - to be able to setup and deploy quickly with near-0 minutia and much less documentation burden.

But we both believe this is one of the most valuable things we've ever created, and we want to get it into the hands of developers who deserve to know that they don't need AWS or Docker - they can "Just Linux It™".

Problem

Webi has become a rather popular and mature project.

However, if all goes well, the intended user should never even visit GitHub. It's amazing that we've had as much engagement on GitHub as we have, especially considering people end up here with something goes wrong or is missing.

However... we need more stars:

• add webi as cross-platform install method sharkdp/bat#1105
• add Webi to installers list denoland/dotland#1612

Solution

"Social proof" will help the project grow on the "back end" as it were.

Thoughts?

• Ask users to star the repo in the CLI message?
• "Star on Github" badge on Website (https://buttons.github.io/)
• Google Analytics to show how popular it is?
• Monthly downloads?

cc/ @ryanburnette

Then What?

Well, I want to see the hockey stick.

I think 1.1k is a magic number. It's not down in the countable hundreds, it's not just a nascent 1k. There's some heft to it.

Once we hit that, I'd like to get PRs in all of the projects we host installers for - including the ones that have a magnitude more stars than we do, and just see what happens.

I definitely don't want this to get "Enterprise-y" (where there's so many aspirational buzzwords on the website that you can't even tell what the thing does anymore), but I would like to go a little more "Pro" (self-hosted, custom "essentials" packs, supply chain security, etc), maybe tie in with BNNA at some point.

I suppose my greatest aspiration (years) is to make the home cloud happen - make self-hosting so effortless, layer by layer, that it's just the default - on-demand edge cloud is for scale, businesses can run their own whatever in minutes.

[coolaj86]

I found this nice "Star on GitHub" button:

<!-- Place this tag where you want the button to render. -->
<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/ntkme/github-buttons" data-icon="octicon-star" aria-label="Star ntkme/github-buttons on GitHub">Star</a>

<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag. -->
<script async defer src="https://buttons.github.io/buttons.js"></script>

However, I wasn't able to style it to fit into the current Webi website theme, so I'm just using the button we already have for now. It seems to be working well.