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📣 debadyutirc

How do I make Fluvio known?


I have been writing, creating tutorials, posting on social and there is a lot of traffic on the docs. But still people don't know about Fluvio.

Surely I am missing something. How do I make fluvio known?

Fluvio is a lightweight distributed streaming engine built from the ground up in Rust.

Fluvio includes developer tooling to build connectors, integrations, modular data transformations, and end to end stateful stream processing paradigm that runs on WebAssembly, called Stateful DataFlow (Creative! I know.)

A consistent comment I hear from people who I connect with users of Fluvio is - "I did not know about Fluvio and I tried 3 other alternatives before finding Fluvio."

Fluvio has been around for more than 5 years. But I keep struggling with this problem.

What am I not doing that I should be doing?

  👤 samarthr1 Accepted Answer ✓
Podcasts, meetups may help?

If you have the moolah, maybe get a booth at a local conference that is vaguely related?

Another common tactic would be to get someone to learn it as a part of a course

👤 dabinat
I see a lot of sites writing articles about related subjects, then at the end there’s something like “if you like this topic, check out our product” or they find some way to tie the article into their product. (Some sites have “Top 10 Solutions to _____”, of which their product is recommended as #1, but I find those kinds of articles disingenuous because they’re trying to give the impression of neutrality where it doesn’t exist.)

IMO it’s impossible to build a serious business on word of mouth alone, but if you create genuinely useful content people will want to link to it. I have discovered many products this way.