Build It And They Will Not Come

[Lars T. Kyllingstad via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Here's the pattern that works a lot better:
>
> 1. spend hundreds if not thousands of hours developing 
> something really cool

Check!

> 2. spend 10 minutes writing the announcement to D.announce. Be 
> sure to include:
>    who, what, where, when, why, and how

Check!

> 3. someone posts it to reddit

Wait, what?  They did?

> 4. post the who, what, where, when, why and how on reddit AS 
> SOON AS POSSIBLE after the reddit link appears. Stuff on reddit 
> has a VERY SHORT shelf life. If it doesn't get action within a 
> couple hours, it fades into oblivion. Identify yourself as the 
> author, say AMA. The first one to post a comment tends to spark 
> and set the tone for the discussion.

Oh man, I'm like two days too late for that.
goto 7?

> 5. check back on reddit once an hour or so for the next day, 
> answer questions

Whoa.  I don't have time for that!

> 6. *****

???

> 7. profit!

Fingers crossed!

-Lars