I think the reality is no one really knows. You’ll hear things like post on socials, blog/content marketing, build a presence on Reddit…
But to me it seems like the lottery. You try enough things, in enough of the right places, for long enough and eventually something sticks and you get some traction. Most people don’t stick with it long enough to find something that connects for them though.
Ideally you’re working on a product where you already have some legitimacy, thus avoiding the cold start problem.
Thanks for checking it out! That’s such a clear improvement to the landing page that I’m a little embarrassed that I missed it,lol. I’ll have to update that later tonight.
By day I’m an actuary. I went to school for math and computer science. I know Python, Django, Vue… am comfortable with pandas, SQL, experimenting with streamlit. All of my industry knowledge is in large insurance companies that have their own internal IT departments. The exact opposite of who will go for a scrappy solo developer.
But, I love solving problems, and have always wanted to run / own my own business or app. So this is me reaching outside myself for the genius of the masses ;-)
Any insights, tips for getting outside that sphere a little and finding problems that people want/need solved would be amazing.
But to me it seems like the lottery. You try enough things, in enough of the right places, for long enough and eventually something sticks and you get some traction. Most people don’t stick with it long enough to find something that connects for them though.
Ideally you’re working on a product where you already have some legitimacy, thus avoiding the cold start problem.
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