3 months of waiting...

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Feb 8 04:14:13 UTC 2020


On 2/7/2020 1:38 PM, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> I started my GtkD blog over a year ago and it took nearly a month before anyone 
> seemed to pay attention. I have no idea if they were or not because I just put 
> up the posts, announced them, and went back to work on the next post. I suspect 
> that any community wants to know that a new site isn't going to end up with one 
> or two posts and then fold. No point in getting excited (or, perhaps, even 
> interested) if that's the case.

Hollywood has a fantasy of "build it and they will come". It's complete 
nonsense. It doesn't matter how good it is - unless and until some sort of 
promotion is done for it, it isn't going anywhere. It's the brutal truth.

This article, "1000 True Fans", gives an idea of what is necessary:

   https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/


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