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Discussion on: How can I make my posts more discoverable?

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Karl L. Hughes • Edited

I write technical blog posts full-time, so while you probably don't need to take content promotion as seriously as I do, I'd recommend sharing your work. Just publishing to Dev.to alone won't bring in gobs of readers.

Here's my checklist of promotional tactics which might help you out: learn.draft.dev/posts/promotion

The tl;dr is: you should spend at least .5x to 1x times as much time promoting your blog post as you do writing it. Start building an audience on a couple of platforms and leverage existing communities like Reddit and Hacker News.

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Jérémie Astor

I'll read that!
While I think Gwion is a pretty interesting project, and that's why I'm actively seeking contributors, I tend to do what I have to do, but forget to communicate about it in the mean time.

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Karl L. Hughes

Yeah, for sure. At least half of making a project grow is making sure people know about it. I also created this checklist which might help in your case: sideprojectchecklist.com/marketing...

As you can tell, I like checklists, haha.