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I do a lot of blogging on topics where people need info. All the info I put out is available for free. The most popular page on one of my more heavily trafficke
by Mz 9y ago
I do a lot of blogging on topics where people need info. All the info I put out is available for free. The most popular page on one of my more heavily trafficked sites has around 40k page views.
A million users are unlikely to just magically know your free editor exists. Things do sometimes go viral, but that isn't the norm for how you get to a million users.
Maybe marketing isn't the best term. But, if the OP does not have some idea of how those million users will be attracted, this is probably not a thing they need to be fretting about.
- raphlinus 9y agoRight, I didn't write clearly. After a couple months of pushing to a 1.0, I'd expect maybe a few thousand users (this seems reasonable to me because it's the number of github stars). That's enough though that I'd need to start worrying about the product rather than just the technology, but that could all be done part-time. My estimate of a million users is what might happen after another year or two of building out the whole vision, and with organic growth from numerous sub-communities (for example, I'd expect Rust users to be quicker to adopt it because it's in Rust). At that point, it's clear that the project would need at least a full time person to be its maintainer. And I don't see how to sustain that. Thanks for emphasizing the focus on marketing; it is indeed a knob I can turn.
- Mz 9y agoThanks for emphasizing the focus on marketing; it is indeed a knob I can turn. I think my main point is that it is a knob that can be turned in either direction. It seems to actually be easier to dial it down if the attention you are getting is somehow problematic. Best.