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Comment on Ask HN: Best practices for starting and structuring an Open Source project?

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How much time should I spend structuring the project and building tooling to make development easier, vs just diving in and building the project?

Imo, at most 8hrs.

What are the most important areas to focus on make sure its as useful as possible (documentation, license, community, other areas I haven't considered?

My order:

1. Demos 2. Good README with ability to get started in <4hrs 3. Documentation 4. Community 5. License (If it's supposed to make money, I vote BSL)

Thoughts on contributing.md this early?

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