You've done it: you've taken your own personal utility, library, or web application and placed it on GitHub as free and open source software for all the world to see. What comes next is up to you.

In which it turns out we're all kind of screwed.

How does it work, what can it do, and what can it not?

Audition was one of the first serious projects that I open-sourced. In 2002 I built a site for a friend's band, and out of that site and its tools came Audition.