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What's the point? It only attracts more competition. It's nice to be public when you can sell to your readers (hello Joel), but otherwise there is little direct
by DenisM 17y ago
What's the point? It only attracts more competition. It's nice to be public when you can sell to your readers (hello Joel), but otherwise there is little direct gain in disclosure.
- dalore 17y agoIf you write about your app and release the numbers, you will get linked to from all sorts of places. So not just your regular users, but you will get new ones from people who don't normally follow you.
- DenisM 17y agoMostly software engineers though - people notorious for not buying software. Pagerank is the only benefit you can get from it.
- llopis 17y agoI think you gain more publicity than competition (especially if it's not something that can be ripped off in a weekend). Besides, to me it's more important to share data with other developers so it's worth it for me personally, even if financially it's just a wash. Not everything is about money :-)