Ask HN：如何吸引开源项目的用户，以及何时停止？
2 分•作者: melenaboija•大约 1 个月前
我一直在做一个操作系统项目，断断续续已经很多年了。最近几个月我又重新拾起来，并且最近借助人工智能给它注入了新的活力。它在量化金融领域拥有一个非常小众的用户群体。
我非常享受这个项目，虽然偶尔会有人联系我，他们正在使用它或者对使用它感兴趣，这些用户确实非常有趣，但我总觉得自己是在浪费时间。自从我开始这个项目以来，已经过去了八年。
我想我的问题是：它值得吗？我知道这个问题有两个明确的方面，个人方面和实际方面，但我希望听到两方面的看法。我怎么知道什么时候该停止？如果我的潜在用户群体在全球大约有两千人，我该如何验证这个想法？我曾在 Reddit 和 HN 上发过很多次帖子，也尝试过 LinkedIn，这带来了一些非常有趣的联系人，但我不知道这是否足以让我继续下去。
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I have been working on an OS project for years now, on and off, taking it back up for the last few months and giving it a good boost lately with AI. It has a super niche user base in quantitative finance.<p>I really enjoy working on it, and although I get contacted every now and then by people who are using it or are interested in using it, and those are really interesting users, I always think I am wasting my time. It has been 8 years now since I started.<p>I guess my questions are: is it worth it? And I know this question has two clear paths, the personal and the practical one, but I would like to hear from both. How can I know when to stop? If my audience is maybe in the order of two thousand potential users worldwide, how do I validate the idea? I have posted on Reddit and HN multiple times, tried LinkedIn, and that leads me to a handful of super interesting contacts, but I don't know if it is enough to keep going.