Evangelizing Your Cool Product

[Wyatt]

On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 23:28:44 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
>
> I don't think you should just compare programmers/developers 
> with entrepreneurs like you did. Of course there are 
> programmers who market/promote their own software, but most 
> don't or at least not like an entrepreneur would do.
>
Maybe those weren't great examples, but the underlying message is 
definitely true.  It's pretty clear at this point that promotion 
is an important part of going indie with games; look at 
Introversion, Dejobaan, Gaslamp, Positech, Wolfire, and whatever 
Jon Blow calls his outfit.  And how many years was Phil Fish 
writing about Fez?  For the tools side, Adam Saltsman with flixel 
and Nicolas Cannasse with Haxe are decent examples.

Or Mozilla.  Ooh man, Mozilla is a good one.  How popular do you 
think Firefox would be without the concentrated campaign to "take 
back the web" and all that?

Writing about your stuff and telling people about your stuff is 
just super important (even if doing it kind of sucks).

-Wyatt