# Publicize Hugo
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [July 7, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406 "2015-07-07T13:30:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@spf13](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/spf13)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/1 "2015-07-07T13:30:52Z")
Today Hugo was submitted by a community member to Product Hunt.
It’s a great site that I really enjoy. It would be awesome to blitz it and get Hugo some recognition. This will be seen by a typically different audience than Hugo currently is know by so it could have a materially positive effect on themes and other visual work.
go here to checkout Hugo if you have a minute.
https://cards.producthunt.com/cards/posts/26653?v=1
This brings up another question is who would be willing to help spread the word about Hugo at various places across the web? What is the best way to coordinate these efforts? Does anyone want to lead these efforts?
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/2 "2015-07-07T21:54:23Z")
It seems like bumps like the above also doubles the stars per day at GitHub:
> **[Build software better, together](https://github.com/trending?l=go)**
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> GitHub is where people build software. More than 50 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/3 "2015-07-07T22:59:50Z")
Upvoted it on ProductHunt, and we just launched my company eSolia’s site reboot based on Hugo, so I posted about that via buffer to several social networks.
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/4 "2015-07-08T01:53:14Z")
Also just added my sites to the Docs showcase, via a PR.
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/5 "2015-07-08T10:16:00Z")
Just added a blurb about using Hugo for our relaunch, to the Static Site Generators community on Google Plus.
[https://plus.google.com/+RickCogley/posts/ikM9Trh9t3b](https://plus.google.com/+RickCogley/posts/ikM9Trh9t3b)
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/6 "2015-07-08T22:32:35Z")
Submitted this blurb to @thenewdynamic:
[https://notes.pinboard.in/u:rickcogley/991fa37098e158617a98](https://notes.pinboard.in/u:rickcogley/991fa37098e158617a98)
…because they responded to my tweet, asking if we would say a couple words about why eSolia chose it, for their site.
> **[the New Dynamic](https://www.thenewdynamic.org/)**
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> Resources to work with static site generators and the JAMstack, to build fast and secure modern websites.
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/7 "2015-07-09T00:55:39Z")
During this latest project, I got my team at eSolia involved, to the extent of making markdown files, which they are used to, and putting them up on their fork of our repo on github. I have not got them to the stage of actually using Hugo yet locally, but, baby steps first.
I asked them all to star the hugo repo. It’s not much, but a handful more stars is better than no more stars.
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/8 "2015-07-09T08:25:12Z")
And now we’re at fourth place:
> **[StaticGen | Top Open Source Static Site Generators](https://www.staticgen.com/)**
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> StaticGen is a leaderboard of the top open source static site generators. Promoting a static approach to building websites.
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### Author:  [@spf13](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/spf13)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/9 "2015-07-10T02:59:26Z")
And we are likely going to be in 4th place for a while if current trends continue. Here’s to looking ahead to being #3.
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/10 "2015-08-12T07:39:51Z")
We just published a blog post on why we chose Hugo in English and Japanese:
[http://esolia.pro/en/why-did-esolia-choose-hugo/](http://esolia.pro/en/why-did-esolia-choose-hugo/)
[http://esolia.pro/ja/why-did-esolia-choose-hugo/](http://esolia.pro/ja/why-did-esolia-choose-hugo/)
FYI
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/11 "2015-08-12T21:21:52Z")
And, the new dynamic linked it up too:
> **[eSolia | the New Dynamic](https://www.thenewdynamic.org/showcase/esolia/)**
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> eSolia had experimented with various other site generators, both proprietary and open source, and with server-side CMSs. We wanted the superior security and performance of a static site, without having to deal with development environment...
> **[Hugo | the New Dynamic](https://www.thenewdynamic.org/tool/hugo/)**
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> The world’s fastest framework for building websites
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/12 "2015-10-02T19:15:29Z")
Maybe worth a few seconds to vote:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284243](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284243)
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/publicize-hugo/1406/13 "2015-10-03T05:02:22Z")
Duly voted.