Ask HN: How do you promote your personal project in limited bugget?

Re:Ask HN: How do you promote your personal project in limit... by nopelynopington on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:34PM (#44055354)

I'm in the same boat exactly, I build things for myself and then hope other people will use them. I struggle to market things, it seems like so much legwork and I've too many irons in the fire. I almost wish I could just hire a marketer who would take a 50% cut.

> If I did agile poker and code commenting and stuff it would take all the fun (momentum) out of sitting down at my home desk after hours at my work desk.

I hope you're not sitting for hours at work and then continuing to sit for hours in the evening. That's not healthy. It might just be a figure of speech but if not, I'd recommend a standing desk either at work or at home.

I know someone will probably argue with me about standing desks because internet people love arguing, but there's ample evidence that sitting all day is bad for us

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Re:Ask HN: How do you promote your personal project in limit... by cosmicgadget on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:23PM (#44055926)

Haha well rest assured I was being hyperbolic. The desk job requires a decent amount of walking around and other after hours obligations mean I only have limited personal dev time.

> a marketer

Maybe get chummy with a product manager who likes it enough to do it after hours?

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