I have spent years of my life trying to build out open source projects or free/inexpensive startups. The projects with the most effort and time put into them have often received the most indifference or even hostility in reception.
Basically, popularity and merit are not related. For your project to become popular, you need a consistent marketing campaign, luck, and the most important thing -- don't expect anyone to do anything different from what they already planned on doing.
Oftentimes, if something is actually kind of stupid or trite or in some way is a regression, that has a much better chance of becoming popular.
But your question is relevant to me because I have not been able to sleep because I was going over ideas in my head for a new lightweight type of web protocol. Which I plan to write up. But because it A) seems really awesome and well thought out to me, and B) requires people to start doing something differently, I expect to be met with indifference (totally ignored) or hostility. But it's such an awesome idea and I wasted all day thinking about it, I am going to put it in my GitHub and post it somewhere anyway. Although posting is often pointless because things often end up with 0-5 votes.
Basically, popularity and merit are not related. For your project to become popular, you need a consistent marketing campaign, luck, and the most important thing -- don't expect anyone to do anything different from what they already planned on doing.
Oftentimes, if something is actually kind of stupid or trite or in some way is a regression, that has a much better chance of becoming popular.
But your question is relevant to me because I have not been able to sleep because I was going over ideas in my head for a new lightweight type of web protocol. Which I plan to write up. But because it A) seems really awesome and well thought out to me, and B) requires people to start doing something differently, I expect to be met with indifference (totally ignored) or hostility. But it's such an awesome idea and I wasted all day thinking about it, I am going to put it in my GitHub and post it somewhere anyway. Although posting is often pointless because things often end up with 0-5 votes.