A few months ago, I told my co-founder I wasn't sure if anyone would ever care about what we were building.
We started Dograh as an open-source voice AI platform—an alternative to the closed players like Vapi and Retell. We thought developers would want this. But for a long time, GitHub stars trickled in slowly. Discord stayed quiet. Some days I'd refresh the analytics dashboard, hoping to see something move, and nothing would.
Today, everything changed.
Our stars started climbing fast, and we couldn't figure out why. Then we looked at our homepage bot, which asks every new user where they heard about us. Almost all of them said YouTube. We searched and found a BetterStack tutorial posted an hour ago. They'd built something with Dograh, liked it enough to record a video, and put it out into the world. We had no idea it was coming. We've never spoken to them.
We just crossed 500 stars. I keep refreshing the signup graph because part of me still doesn't believe it.
If you're building something open source and the silence is getting to you, I just want to say: someone out there might already be using your project. They might be about to tell the world. Keep shipping.