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How and where to promote developer / system informational tool?

this product

Hi guys.

So i am finishing up my first iteration of workload on a side project of mine called statworks.io

Basically it let's you install a simple NPM module and then it will feed system statistics to my service that then analyses the data and notifies you if any user defined limits are reached.

My problem is how to decide on a strategy for promoting the service?

And where would I start spreading the word? (besides here)

Hopefully someone here have had some experience or bright ideas about where and how to best promote a product aimed for developers?

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    If you plan on reaching out one-to-one, I recently made a list for my own project based on the idea of contacting 10 people from 20 different places, as mentioned in this article by @cliffordoravec:

    https://blog.gettamboo.com/the-epic-guide-to-bootstrapping-a-saas-startup-from-scratch-by-yourself-part-1-4d834e1df8c1

    The article is more about customer development but I think the idea applies here.

    • People who have tweeted "system stats," "devops," "system performance," "server monitoring," and so on
    • People who retweet or favourite devops tweets
    • People on Twitter who have "developer," "coder," "devops," etc in their descriptions
    • Same on LinkedIn
    • Same on AngelList
    • People on Twitter who follow specific people in this space
    • People subscribed to dev or devops groups on LinkedIn
    • People who blog or write articles about dev, devops…
    • People who have commented on these articles
    • People on Meetup subscribed to dev groups
    • People who have made insightful comments (or questions) on HN posts related to dev, devops…
    • Freelance developers on Upwork
    • People who have commented on YouTube videos related to dev, devops…
    • People on StackOverflow who have asked or answered questions related to this space
    • Same on Reddit
    • People who have reviewed dev or devops books on Amazon
    • Dev shops/agencies that may be able to offer this service to their customers
    • People on ProductHunt that support dev and devops projects

    By the way, Clifford is interviewed on IH here:

    https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/009-clifford-oravec-of-tamboo