Hi there @tyhitzeman welcome to our community. It is very nice to see you want to continue the work of @andrewmurraydunn
First of all I’d like to point to the post by @Camielvanderbeek who did a great research on the mindfulness experience in particular for a new launcher design: Human Phones - A mindful redesign of the smartphone experience
In terms of ‘marketing’, given the urgent need to find devs, I’d make that your top-prio campaign. There’s a bunch of things I’d focus on.
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You are great FOSS software. Now you need to build a FOSS community around it. Your current website does not express that. It looks like a team is working behind the scenes to prepare a launch.
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I’d turn the website from a “await our announcement” to a great project + product site that breathes “we are launching a FOSS community to do great stuff with your phone and we need you to help”. Add a blog to the site instead of using Medium and describe your plans, and some roadmap ideas.
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Attract more attention to your GPL-licensing. The only mention is at the bottom of the README. Add a LICENSE file, so Github knows your license. Display it on the website too. Note that with your licensing your are more than ‘just’ an open-source project: You are a free software project!
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I have my doubts with some of the project tooling you already use, in terms of attractiveness to FOSS contributors. Both Discord and Medium are not well-loved in FOSS circles. Medium is easy to get rid of, and - if you prefer to keep Discord - you might bridge discord to Matrix.
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Part of your FOSS Community campaign might be to place announcements on many, many FOSS-related places. Present your current team and explicitly ask for technical team members. You may broaden your search and ask for Java/Kotlin devs. Many android codebases are transitioning to Kotlin, and it is ‘sexy’ to work on that.
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You might add a Fediverse channel, besides Twitter. There are many FOSS devs on the fedi. The instance https://fosstodon.org may be a good one. Also consider adding a RSS stream to your site… something FOSS devs love.
There’s more advice I could give, but these are things that popped first into my head 