With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    18 hours ago

    Finamp’s current alpha was a huge surprise to me. I stopped looking at development for a few months and in that time they completely reworked it

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      15 hours ago

      Wow the UI is nice

      https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

      Finamp is a Jellyfin music player for Android and iOS. It’s meant to give you a similar listening experience as traditional streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, but for the music that you already own. It’s free, open-source software, just like Jellyfin itself.

    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 hours ago

      I dunno… Jellyfin does great as a Video media player/streaming platform. I prefer to not have everything in the same basket.

      Also, this is better for Dev, so they only have to concentrate to one type of thing. I would rather suggest navidrome as a music server and Tempo as a music client for android !!

      Tempo doesn’t get updated so much (every few months) but he/she takes his time to make his player functional and very pleasing to the eyes.

      • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        I agree limiting application scope is useful for multiple reasons, however Jellyfin started as a fork of Emby which already had music support. I have yet to find a standalone application that has enough features to sway me from just utilizing the existing media server functionality.