Prepping for Patreon...

[bauss]

On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 17:14:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 15:42:10 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
>> Should probably ask people that you know might consider 
>> subscribing to your Patreon.
>
> I thought you might be one candidate, bauss. I know we've 
> discussed GtkD on at least one occasion on this forum.
>

I might chip in at some point.

> As for where to find other people I know who might be 
> interested... I've got this forum, the Reddit D Programming 
> feed, and the forum over on GtkD.org... Oh. And Gnome 
> Discourse... and, of course, the Facebook group I started.  I 
> don't know who else would potentially be my audience.
>
> Audience building has been slow going, mostly—I think—because D 
> and GtkD aren't exactly mainstream yet. Part of my goal is, of 
> course, to help change this.
>

Sharing posts to Reddit etc. might be a way to gain audience.

>
>> It's rather difficult unless there is a specific course behind 
>> your Patreon page that will make people support you.
>
> Can you elaborate on this? I'm not really clear on what you 
> mean by 'course.'
>

My bad for the typo. Meant "cause"

>> -- Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but there is no 
>> off-topic section either --
>
> Yup, too true. I considered the Learn sub-forum, but this 
> seemed more like an announce-y thing to me. Perhaps the 
> moderator can step in and give me some guidance as to whether 
> this thread should (or even can) be moved.
>
> Thanks for you feedback, bauss.