Fail at Maintaining Your First OSS Project in 3 Easy Steps!
summary
Builds an Ember front end with a Rails API for a gender‑queer safety alert app that sends location alerts via Google Maps and accepts newcomer PRs, and it initially works and attracts contributors. Maintenance falters when onboarding needs bite‑sized issues and a co‑maintainer doesn't appear. Personal crises — a close friend relapsing and severe gender dysphoria leading to coming out and name changes — exhaust available time; experiments like one hour a day fail and the project is ultimately abandoned.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:00My OSS Journey
- 5:34My Ember App
- 11:27External Issues
- 12:55Internal Issues
- 13:39My Experience
- 16:44Stress
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