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Well.. if we are doing ChatGPT anecdotes.. today I tried to "launch" the new version of https://aidev.codes. It integrates the ChatGPT API with Stability.ai (stable diffusion) for generating images and well as Eleven Labs text-to-speech and can create and immediately host an interactive web page on a custom subdomain.

I need marketing help. Or I should just stop trying. I don't see how people are able to get posts on the home page.. I could not get any attention or comments at all or any real user engagement today. I know this is a useful system or at least worth of a tiny amount of discussion. After working on it for months there is almost no reaction.

I don't think its the website. I think its just that I probably need to buy upvotes or something. But I don't have money for marketing. I'm very bitter.

What I keep telling myself is that marketing is going to be as hard as the programming. Which I have been doing the programming for months, so I will need to do the marketing for a long time also. But I am out of money.

If this doesn't get any traction (which it seems very close to zero) I will be desperate for any kind of contract within about a week. But I don't want to give up on the idea despite the apparent lack of interest. I think the biggest thing is that I only have 100 followers on Twitter or 600 followers on the other account and those people only care about one specific domain.

I also seem to have not been able to get a single upvote on reddit. And only one very short comment.

So I am suspecting that these sites are rigged. Or I should just give up on life? Not that I would actually consider that but that's the feedback that I seem to be getting repeatedly from the world.. that my efforts aren't even worth a short comment disparaging them.

parent ilaksh 3 years ago

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