Comment by gitgud

> I’m a new solo dev with almost no audience. If a large org or a well-known developer sees the idea and ships a similar implementation, they can get more attention immediately than I can get in months. And in the end I get nothing for open-sourcing my project.

This has always been a fear of open source development… but in reality it’s over exaggerated, thousands of FOSS ideas are posted every day…

My advice would be to treat posting your project like a launch, and get all the readme’s, docs etc ready before posting, so it has the best chance of growing an audience, which seems to be your goal.

But if you really don’t want other people to recycle your idea, then open source is not for you…