New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects?

Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects?
4 by treebeard5440 | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I been running an OSS project for almost a year now and I feel like it’s been fairly successful for a small project. We have had quite a few contributors - especially during hacktoberfest that have given us high qualilty PR’s. While the contributions have been better than ever expected we’re not as strong on some other “metrics” such as stars, forks, watchers, etc. Looking through discussions some people only value those things while others completely disregard them. I’m curious how other maintainers determine the success of their OSS projects. Outside of “metrics” and contributors is there anything else to consider?