f I get more than 350 'likes' for the reddit post where I announced this, I promise to release the library open source
Why not just do it anyway? I don't understand this mentality.
Part of the mentality is that extra effort -- cleaning up code, adding comments, adding documentation, etc. -- may not be worth it. Using the number of likes is an objective way of asking "Will anyone actually care if i do this extra work, or should I do something else with my life?".
I dont get that mentality either. None of that stuff is required for open sourcing a piece of software. High quality codebases are not born overnight.