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Building such tools and making them successful is not at all easy. People assume they'll just throw some code and make it open source and this will bring loads
by handzhiev 11y ago
Building such tools and making them successful is not at all easy. People assume they'll just throw some code and make it open source and this will bring loads of traffic.
Unfortunately things don't work this way - even a free tool needs to be marketed, and if marketing is your weakness this is not an easy task.
- michaelbuckbee 11y agoFull 100% agreement that even a free tool needs to be marketed, but if we're comparing apples to apples, so does a blog article. My experience has been that it's much much easier to market a free mini-service than it is to get somebody to pay attention to a blog article as it's just a better "frame" to put the content in. As opposed to "talking at people" marketing, I just really like the tool creation approach as it feels much more like "helping people" marketing.