Re:Does Sponsoring Daring Fireball Work?
by saddington on Monday January 26, 2015 @08:13PM
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one of the most important things that i've learned in the process of building this particular indie app is the fact that GAINING TRACTION should be as important as building the product.
that nearly killed me when i first realized that. this book really changed my perspective: http://blog.desk.pm/gaining-traction/
it's hard to do both... i mean, impossible... but i've focused more on doing a good job of building community, creating content, and gaining traction through experimentation (e.g. marketing on Gruber's blog) than I ever have...
and... it's kinda worked.!
In less snarky terms, I think focusing on marketing is super important. The faults and missing features can be fixed when you have users and money to pay for the work to do so. I'm sick of using a nice obscure app that is abandoned because I'm one of the few people who use it, so I'm less harsh on marketing as opposed to "more coding" than you.