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I think this sentiment is an indication that what you made is not as useful as you'd like. Communities enjoy things that are useful to them. By virtue of you
by dhruvkar 8y ago
I think this sentiment is an indication that what you made is not as useful as you'd like.
Communities enjoy things that are useful to them.
By virtue of you being interested in your own side project's subject matter, makes you a part of that community.
Build something that YOU find useful, then when you share you won't feel like its being invasive, it'll feel like giving a gift.
- Smithalicious 8y agoI think it's invasive by means of explicitly violating the rules of almost every community. For example, /r/anime has a rule that says that all posts have to be anime-specific, which my website is not. I messaged the mods to confirm this and they also said it is not allowed. Similarly, 4chan has a "no advertising" rule and more importantly it is strongly ingrained into the culture that you don't post things that can link you to some kind of "identity". Even posting your own youtube videos there is met with disdain. I do think what I've made is useful and it was expliclty made to scratch my own itch (and I've been using it for months by myself) but I am just not comfortable going into communities, most of which I would not have otherwise visited, to do something that probably violates the rules or at least looks a lot like spam.