Re:Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've lea...
by dale_glass on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:28AM
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True, but it still has some upsides. These days I mostly hang out in dark corners of the net. If it's profitable at all to astroturf there, then it's barely so. And if you manage, it's mostly because you actually managed to make a positive contribution to the space at the same time.
(People forget that humans invented the advertising industry precisely to shield civilization from this kind of "word of mouth".)