Hey, I'm Krishna, a 13 year old programmer (My GitHub). This year was my first hacktoberfest and I was both a contributor and a maintainer!
Project
My repository was PleasantWeb, which is a smart browser extension which alerts users of unsuitable content online. It was not a very highly active repo, but I had some contributors (If you're reading this, check the repo out. You can test the extension and create new issues and work on them!). It was a project I built during buildspace s4, and modified it a bit. I made it open source later. I posted on online forums and got my contributors, who made PRs and I would check them out, and merge , or request changes.
Highs and Lows
This was my first open source repo I have hosted and acted as a maintainer. So it is a huge achievement for me. I also faced problems with some new GitHub concepts, which I wasn't aware of. I learnt and explored more of Github this month!
Growth
Before Hacktoberfest, as I never hosted any open source repo, I thought of it to be some kind of rocket science. But this hacktoberfest changed my mindset. I also learnt more about newer concepts which I wasn't aware of, by reviewing others' code and trying to code myself! Thank you for reading!
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