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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/Medical_Distance6635 on 2025-10-20 18:51:08+00:00.
TL;DR: A few years ago I wrote my first loop in C#, and today I maintain my own open-source project with 30+ stars and 45 contributors.
Hey all, today I would like to talk about how I became open source maintainer and why would you want to contribute to open source.
I guess it all started when I saw a friend writing some code on his laptop and I just told him “hey looks cool how can I do it as well”.
From him I learned the basics , and continued on my own on Udemy and youtube.
At some point along that timeline (I think it was about 1 year after i started writing code as a hobby) I started my computer science degree, and the funny things is that because I already knew some of the things there I just went to the classes and if It got boring to me I went into Stack Overflow (ye ye I know that dead side) answering question there.
Now Im not using my account but I answered over 400 answers there, fun time.
After the degree I started my first work as a software developer, and during this time I kept contributing to open source project because its super fun.
There I really learnt a lot about the open source world, I joined HacktoberFest almost every year from 2019 and found some interesting open source projects.
I saw that HacktoberFest and the open source community gave me amazing tools so this year I wanted to give back to the community.
I create this project :
github.com/Deadlink-Hunter/Broken-Link-Website
And the main goal of my project was as i mentioned to give back to the community.
I was shocked to find out that sometimes after I opened a new issue after 1 minute someone already want to work on it.
People started to contribute and thank me for giving thm code review (wired right?), giving me stars on the repo and bringing me more contributors by doing so.
Im so glad that I made this decision, I really learned a lot from it and I could give back to the open source community.