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Appreciation post: Greg from the Chicago meetup told me to stop chasing vanity metrics back in 2018 and I wish I listened sooner
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simon_coleman13d ago
Take that with a grain of salt, but sometimes you need those vanity metrics to keep the momentum going. If I had ignored all my early "looks cool but meaningless" numbers, I probably would have quit way before anything started working.
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lee_butler13d ago
Totally agree with this. When I was first getting going with my side project (it was a little newsletter about local history, nothing flashy), those tiny numbers were the only thing keeping me from throwing in the towel. I had like 12 subscribers for the first few months and honestly felt like a fool. But watching that number slowly tick up, even by one person a week, gave me enough motivation to keep writing and improving. Eventually those vanity metrics turned into real engagement and growth, but they had to be there first. You can't get to the good stuff without surviving the boring part, you know?
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