I convinced patio11 to tell everybody that Tarsnap was awesome but far too cheap. Well, sort of. Tarsnap was quite profitable by the time Patrick wrote that b

I convinced patio11 to tell everybody that Tarsnap was awesome but far too cheap. Well, sort of. Tarsnap was quite profitable by the time Patrick wrote that blog post; but its growth has always been driven primarily by word of mouth, and blog posts like Patrick's are a large part of that. The only sort of advertising I've found to be useful is sponsoring open source software.