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#017 – How to Grow Your Business with Julian Shapiro of Bell Curve

Indie Hackers

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Why Open Source Developers Aren't Getting Cold Emails

If you're doing an open source project, you might as well try to charge money for it or at the very least learn how to market it and grow it. There's just no reason not to put in the marketing work. If developers are uncomfortable with the marketing work, that's a separate issue as opposed to being unwilling. Just educate yourself and break down those barriers of, oh, it's my fault. It's marketing. It's spammy. It's SEO. It's salesy. You can just write great organic content for blogs that you would love to read. Okay. That doesn't have to be any of those things. But if you're uncomfortable, there's great

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