How and where to gain popularity for your project?
I made my project but it is not well known, I tried to advertise it here on Hacker News but I often got [marked], I also tried to promote it through other services but it didn't work on them either It didn't work out to gain popularity, but of all the best services, they were talking about HN It was said here that they gained popularity with the help of this site, but it doesn't work for me.
Are you talking about your gif decoder project? You've reposted it a bunch of times, and mostly it hasn't been flagged, and when it has it seems to be because people perceive the reposts as spamming.
It may just be that the project isn't interesting to enough people here to gain traction, or that it appeals to a niche audience that isn't well represented here. Just speculating, I don't actually know.
I was just hoping that HN a place where you can talk about projects, but mostly there are just regular posts that don't even have anything to do with programming.