Ask HN: How do you get traction of a free tool

1 points by TealMyEal 4mo ago ↗ HN

I made a fairly simple tool to help people get feedback on their Meta (soon to be google and tiktok) advertising campains and like anyone releasing it and showing it off in subreddits, twitter, linkedin. I had the dream that what if i wake up to it viral, but womp womp, not a single person used it, I guess it boils down to how do you advertise?

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andsoitis 4mo ago ↗

Why are you trying to push adoption? Given that it is free, you won’t make “more” money.

It is because you eventually want to charge? Or is that you’d like to see adoption for the personal satisfaction of having made a tool that thousands or millions of people find useful?

mmarian 4mo ago ↗

Did you put it in the right forums? If you did, and no one used it, it means that it's just not that useful.