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Join Discord voice chats, mute, and just screen-share yourself using your tool
Members kept asking what it was; server owner made a free YouTube promo video
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What they did
Joined voice chats in the target Discord server and shared his screen using the tool, without talking or pitching. Members tagged him asking 'what are you using?' and he replied that it was a tool he built. Did this for about a week straight, then kept sitting in the server screen-sharing for weeks.
What happened
Drew steady questions from members; the server owner made an unrequested, unpaid long-form YouTube promo video about the tool
- Stage
- pre-launch
- Effort
- About a week straight, then weeks of sitting in the server
“So, what I used to do is I'll go in that server and I'll join a Discord voice chat and I would share my screen. Not talking, nothing, just me using my tool. And I was seeing, "@Sam, what are you using? @Sam, what is this?"”
“It even attracted the eyes of the Discord server owner to the point that he created a YouTube long-form promotional video on the tool. I didn't ask him. I didn't pay for it.”
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