From 0 to 146k weekly downloads; lessons from accidental open source success

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Imagine creating a humble side project that rocketed to popularity in a short amount of time to become the defacto standard among its peers. What might you learn? What does it take to make a successful software project? What might you learn about software engineering, web development, and OSS? What could you take back to your day job?

Being the creator and maintainer of storybook-addon-next, a storybook addon that went from 1 to 146k weekly downloads in a short amount of time and becoming a key component in Storybook v7.0, Ryan Clements ended up learning a lot that helped him level up as a software engineer.

We were not able to to record this session, but it is available from civo

Location

Hays · 4350 W Cypress St Suite 1000 · Tampa · FL

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