I Might Have More Luck Handing Out Flyers On The Street

You spent six months building your revolutionary to-do app with blockchain integration, posted it on Reddit, tweeted about it, made a Product Hunt launch... and got 3 upvotes total. Two were your alt accounts.

Marketing as an indie dev is like screaming into the void, except the void occasionally responds with "looks cool but does it have dark mode?" Then they never come back. You could have better engagement rates standing at a busy intersection with a sandwich board. At least people would have to physically avoid eye contact instead of just scrolling past.

The brutal truth: there are 47 million other indie devs launching their apps on the same day, all competing for the attention span of a goldfish. Your masterpiece gets buried faster than a git commit with "fixed stuff" as the message.