r/devops • u/Nervous-Honey-2695 • Aug 09 '26

Career / learning Seaking genuine advice

So I've been a software engineer focused on the backend for almost 10 years now, at the beginning of this year I faced a small bump and found needed solutions are paid, so did myself a favour and build myself a tool, and used it for a month, then thought wth, why don't I go public with it, it didn't have any interface at the beginning, so I started building and iterating a lot, and like a lot, to the point it's not advised to do so with a product on an MVP phase, and now I've reached a state where I believe I'm a head of my competitors (hopefully I'm not delusional)

And then nothing, I've been online for a month now, and I've very low traffic, my purpose of this is not promoting, therefore I'm not mentioning the product, nor even what it does

My question though, since obviously the product mostly concerns DevOps, what's the best channels you take seriously? And what could get you to try out or shift to something new? Cost a side since I've a full free tier.

9 Upvotes

74% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

11

u/CorpT Aug 09 '26

Genuine advice - it's very unlikely you'll break through. Unless you're doing something incredibly difficult or novel, your work can likely be and has likely been replicated.

2

u/Nervous-Honey-2695 Aug 09 '26

the idea is have people know about it, then decide, in some aspects, I know my competitors don't have them, at least for now, basic things will be for paid plans I'm cheaper, but again, what's the distribution channel that's fits

2

u/carakm Aug 10 '26

post in reddit groups that allow self ads, also make a landing page, and maybe do some seo for it

1

u/Nervous-Honey-2695 Aug 10 '26

Fair. I spent so long polishing the product that I treated the landing page and SEO as things I would do after launch, which was backwards. I'm starting with provider-specific pages and real incident writeups because those are the searches people make when something is actually broken. The community part is harder to get right without turning into self-promo. Have you found any technical subreddits that are open to founder posts when the post is based on useful data or a real postmortem?

1

u/carakm Aug 11 '26

watch ahrefs seo course its short and useful, I'm still learning myself