<story><title>Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades</title><url>https://un.curl.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>So this is a bit tangential.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been considering open sourcing my search engine. Search is like a fractal of interesting problems, and pretty much every aspect of the search engine has known areas of improvement, so I&amp;#x27;m sure it would be a fun project to collaborate on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m honestly a bit at a loss how to actually go about it, since it&amp;#x27;s not an application or a library where others are expected to run it, but a fairly bespoke piece of web service that requires specific hardware configurations to do anything useful (as well as extremely unwieldy datasets). The only rolemodel I can find is something like Wikipedia.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious if anyone knows good &amp;quot;role models&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeqaz</author><text>I run an Open Source project[0] and I&amp;#x27;m in a group with a bunch of other Open Source founders. I&amp;#x27;ve spent a lot of time thinking about these types of problems and I&amp;#x27;ve put down some of them into a post here[1].&lt;p&gt;My email is on my profile if you&amp;#x27;d like to chat directly. That offer extends to anybody else, too!&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;lunasec-io&amp;#x2F;lunasec&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;lunasec-io&amp;#x2F;lunasec&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lunasec.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;how-to-build-an-open-source-business-in-2021-part-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lunasec.io&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;how-to-build-an-open-source...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades</title><url>https://un.curl.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marginalia_nu</author><text>So this is a bit tangential.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been considering open sourcing my search engine. Search is like a fractal of interesting problems, and pretty much every aspect of the search engine has known areas of improvement, so I&amp;#x27;m sure it would be a fun project to collaborate on.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m honestly a bit at a loss how to actually go about it, since it&amp;#x27;s not an application or a library where others are expected to run it, but a fairly bespoke piece of web service that requires specific hardware configurations to do anything useful (as well as extremely unwieldy datasets). The only rolemodel I can find is something like Wikipedia.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious if anyone knows good &amp;quot;role models&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuxie_</author><text>My first question would be: what&amp;#x27;s your goal? Why do you want to open source it?&lt;p&gt;Because if the answer is &amp;quot;knowledge sharing&amp;quot; then just document it and open it, that&amp;#x27;s it, whoever is interested will show up (and if nobody does you don&amp;#x27;t care, your goal is fulfilled). If instead your goal is to eventually build a community around it then you&amp;#x27;ll have to put more effort (for example talk in conferences).&lt;p&gt;You get my point, you will know which road to take as soon as you know where you want to go.&lt;p&gt;My 2c.</text></comment>