Building an open-source project is one thing. Getting people to actually discover it is a completely different problem. A few weeks ago, I started working on RollDate , a dependency-free JavaScript date picker built around a scroll-first interaction model.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/rolldate/i-built-a-date-picker-got-1000-npm-downloads-and-then-discovered-the-hard-part-49ph)