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Comment by xlii

Marketing new software is impossibly hard.

I have multiple open-source projects and 2 commercial offerings (see: https://race-term.com, https://inboxctl.com and https://github.com/exlee).

With RACE (which is great I use it daily) I have maybe 30 users. With Inboxctl there are (I think) 2 except me.

Recently I figured that there's no reason to work on open source because it's going to be a vaporware even if I set up the whole architecture. With paid software I might (at least) get paid for my time.

But long story short: there are no channels to share/market/show people. HN is hit or miss (most often miss).

Is it good software? Yes. I'm in this industry for more than 2 decades and it ticks all the boxes for "good software". But all the channels where you could meet it are dead waters.

parent xlii 18 days ago

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