With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Finamp’s current alpha was a huge surprise to me. I stopped looking at development for a few months and in that time they completely reworked it

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Wow the UI is nice

      https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

      Finamp is a Jellyfin music player for Android and iOS. It’s meant to give you a similar listening experience as traditional streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, but for the music that you already own. It’s free, open-source software, just like Jellyfin itself.