A Hugging Face researcher says audience building came from open source, teaching, and depth
mervenoyann · x · 2026-07-21
The author explains that their audience was built as a byproduct of years of doing things they cared about: presenting open-source libraries, contributing small patches, turning papers and books into visual explanations, teaching algorithm and deep-learning topics, and streaming coding sessions.
They argue that the goal was never growth hacking. The motivation was to learn deeply and help others understand hard topics. Later, joining Hugging Face felt like a strong fit because the company values open source, education, and writing about what engineers build.
The post also frames their book project as a niche educational effort rather than a money-making move, especially around topics like VLM alignment, VLMs in agents, and computer vision.
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