How to share your code

Question

I have to admit I've never been very pragmatic or business oriented when it comes to writing computer code, but looking through some of my past projects, I see a ton of pretty good ideas with some decent code. Some are finished products, others just bits and pieces. What's the best way to share your code and give it some exposure?

i.e. Hey I made this framework/widget/etc. It would be cool to get some input on it and for people to use it!

Answer 1

I think the easiest way is to find a wiki relevant to your code and post it there. Another simple option is to create your publicly accessible web page and hang your code off of there. Give the text and links searchable terms so people can find it.

Answer 2

Buckle down and finish it, then publish it on your website, and submit the link to Reddit. I have been doing this with my old ideas all week.

Answer 3

You can publish an article at codeproject or if it is a library or framework which you want to turn into an open source library host your code at github

Answer 4

Put your code on a website

Starting points:

• http://wordpress.com - more appropriate for blogs but will work
• http://codeplex.com
• http://assembla.com
• http://codeproject.com

Answer 5

If they are something useful, why not create code.google.com space for each of them?

Answer 6

Let's not forget SourceForge, that hosts several well-known projects as: Wine, Wireshark, WxWidgets, Dev-C++, aMSN, Pidgin, Tcl, ...

Here is a nice comparison of open source hosting facilities.