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Launch and discoverability: demo GIF, social preview, awesome-lists and launch posts

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, go

Research direction

Start with the README and the existing screenshot at docs/assets/tui-form.png; the issue also calls out the project site, GitHub social preview settings, and awesome-list submission targets. The requested work includes recording a demo with charmbracelet/vhs, creating a social preview, updating site metadata, and promotion after issues #46, #47, and #49 are fixed. Done means the README has a demo GIF, the repo has a social preview, and at least two awesome-list PRs are submitted.

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Description

marketing priority: medium

Why it matters

After 8 releases, the project has 0 stars and no discovery path. The engineering has outpaced the visibility. A recon tool is chosen in seconds from a README and a GIF.

Gaps

  • No terminal demo GIF or asciinema recording. Only a static TUI screenshot (docs/assets/tui-form.png) exists.
  • No GitHub social preview image (Settings → Social preview), and no og: tags on the site.
  • Not listed in awesome-go, awesome-bugbounty-tools, awesome-hacking or awesome-pentest.

Suggested approach

  1. Record a 20-second demo with charmbracelet/vhs, using a .tape file committed to the repo and regenerated in CI. Show a simulate run plus the per-query accounting summary, and add it to the top of the README.
  2. Create a 1280×640 social preview built around the "trust the result" message, and wire it into the repo settings and the site og:image.
  3. After fixing #46, #47 and #49:
    • Post a "Show HN" and posts on r/netsec and r/golang. Lead with the honest positioning: "slower than puredns, but tells you when your results are lying".
    • Submit PRs to the awesome lists.
  4. Add the GitHub topics dns-bruteforce, reconnaissance, subdomain-takeover, osint and security-tools.

Done when

The README has a demo GIF, the repo has a social preview, and at least 2 awesome-list PRs are submitted.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
1
Forks
1
Avg merge
14d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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