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Currently, I am leading an open source software project, which is having estimated 8,000 visitors per month.

The following are the ways to promote open source project :

  1. Carefully draft our web site, so that it can be located by search engine using unique keyword. Currently, by searching through "free stock market software", we are in the 1st page.
  2. Post through freshmeat, whenever there is a new release.
  3. We will have a new release notification, to current existing users.
  4. We have addthis button in our web site.
  5. We post message through high traffic stock market forum, to introduce this free software to them. However, this is not a good way. As sometimes, the forum moderator will flag us as spam.
  6. We publish new release news, through facebook.
  7. We publish new release news, through twitter.
  8. We write a blog about our open source project.

However, we still feel that we are not doing good enough. Is there any better and more efficient way, to promote a open source software project?

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In my opinion you are on the right way, just go ahead and be patient! What I would like to suggest is to make a try with sites like Financial Sense, Stock Charts and many more out there where you can target your audience in an easy way. It could be interesting to make contact with those site´s managers and think about a way to promote your product through out their sites. Getting reviews from other good and popular sites is the best way to increase your popularity. Keep commenting throguh forums but not in the way of advertising but providing useful information to the people out there.

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You have a financial software, and you do target geographic regions such as Singapore, so you could do a search and see if you can find sites that relate to you, and partner with them. It's quite easy. For example, I just did a quick search and I found a Singapore Stocks forum. Why not partner with them, maybe have their link in your software (in the about page or something), and they can have your link on their site? Win-win.

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I do not target on particular country. My users currently are mostly from Malaysia, India and United State. Yup, they do put a link to me :) singaporestocks.com.sg/general-stock-discussions/… – Yan Cheng CHEOK Mar 4 at 14:52

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