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Discussion on: Attracting users toward a project.

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GW

This is the biggest question in software development. I'm sure there isn't a for sure solution, because if anyone knew it they'd be a billionaire.

Ultimately, step one is exposing people that are your target audience that your project exists. For example, I built an audio application and I posted about it to a couple groups I'm in for audio people on Facebook. That got me about 10 good beta testers.

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Krrish Dhaneja

What you mean is advertising the project?

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GW

Yes, but I'm not saying paying for an advert. Most people ignore ads.

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Krrish Dhaneja

No, no, I was too not talking about paying, I was talking about telling them.

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Krrish Dhaneja

So what could be a convenient platform for telling the people about my project(cuz my friends and the people I know are not devs.)

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Krrish Dhaneja

So what could be a convenient platform for telling the people about my project(cuz my friends and the people I know are not devs.)

Anything about this?

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GW

I mean, here's a good place. I've found a couple really interesting projects that I'm now following because someone posted about it.

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Krrish Dhaneja

Hmm... What about Twitter?

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GW

I'm not really a twitter person, but I know a ton of devs are. So it wouldn't hurt for sure. But it's easy to elide over them because of how short a tweet is imo.