u/SlowestTriathlete wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Clearly you haven't attended Codesmith so you have zero idea of the amount of effort that was put in to create these projects from scratch. Some are actually being used by other developers and there's nothing wrong with bringing awareness. That said I can guarantee you that I hav
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Triathelete's comment got downvoted but I think it's VERY important to separate asking people for positive reviews and making it part of a course to say good things about the course (which could be fraud) versus asking people to promote projects they are excited about (which Codesmith students do). I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever that Codesmith systematically does the former and I think shouldn't get downvoted to point that out and make it clear.
RE projects used by other developers. There are a tiny handful that are. Codesmith has been supporting the Svelte community a lot recently and a few projects have been acknowledged by engineers. But I've audited the GitHubs and that's the edge case. The vast majority have spikes of brief activity every 7 weeks as a cohort moves in, and then crickets - no issues, no discussions, no PRs from the outside, etc....
I LOVE OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS! I hope over time they move towards building real open source projects and I'm sure that's what they would like too, nothing to really complain too much about there.