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# Promoting D Projects (or Internet Marketing 101)

So you've written a cool project in D, and it's ready for others to use or to get involved with helping develop it further. Just posting a Github link isn't going to work. All your blood, sweat and effort will just go to waste. You'll need to provide a way for people who want to know about your project to be able to find it.

The steps are:

1. Create a good starting point for the project
2. Let people know about it

### Creating a good starting point

For many using a Github README is enough, but rolling out your own website creates a more professional look. (Don't forget that with Github Pages hosting is free.)

- The keywords and phrases that someone who would be interested in your project might type into Google to find it.
- The phrase D programming language and dlang somewhere on the page. This helps build the brand on the internet. If you just use D, nobody will find it via search.
- Screen shots of the program. Even better, for graphics and game demos, make a short video of it.
- List the capabilities of the package and what it's good for.
- Identify who this package is intended for and why they'd want to use it.
- Copyright and license information for any source code. If you intend for it to be public domain, make sure to explicitly mark it so.

### Promoting the Project

Submit the page or article to the following:

- newsgroup
- D wiki
- awesome-d - A curated list of awesome D documents, frameworks, libraries and software
- Reddit Programming - User-contributed news platform
- Twitter using the #dlang hashtag.
- Hacker News - Reddit for nerds
- Slashdot - news for nerds
- dzone - Developer news
- gamedev.net - anything game related
- Wikipedia if it genuinely adds to an article on the subject

If your project is a conversion of an existing project to D, email the project leader of that existing project and suggest that he incorporate a link to your project on his page.

For the absolutely most effective results, submit articles to:

- SDWest
- OOPSLA

Have a look whether there are conferences in your field at which you could present your project.

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