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Stardate 2021-06-17
Time and time again I spend a considerable amount of time working on a project
that I find useful and think:
surely other people will find this useful as well"
... only to find out that it isn't resonating with people like I had expected.
It's frustrating to spend so much time and energy on building open-source
libraries only to discover no one cares or no one see its potential. Part of me
thinks it has to do with networking. I'm terrible at networking. My social
sphere is extremely limited. This is especially true in the developer community.
I struggle to gain any traction, no matter how many projects or blog articles I
publish. I find the entire endeavor exhausting and not my personality. I want
the result of having a big network without having to engage in it at all. Some
people have managed to pull this off very successfully. They can write a blog
post, not advertise it anywhere and get a huge audience to read it.
Twitter seems like it has massive potential to build a large network of people
that will see my projects or ideas but how do you grow that audience? I don't
like twitter, I find the whole ecosystem toxic and to be perfectly honest really
boring. I'm sure a big reason why I think it's boring is because it feels like
I'm sending my tweets directly into `/dev/null`.
I try to write high quality and thoughtful blog articles but after every post I
hear crickets. Every library I publish I hear crickets. Every app I create I
hear crickets.
The end result is I feel like I'm wasting my time or that my ideas aren't that
great to begin with. Maybe it's true that my ideas don't reasonate with people.
I rarely feel lonely, but when I try to announce a project I'm excited to share
with the world only to hear crickets ... it's hard not to feel alone.
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