How do you market when you're too shy to put yourself out there?
I've been a developer my whole life because I'm honestly more comfortable with code than people. The building part comes naturally. The "go out and tell the world" part terrifies me.
Every time I try to promote it, I freeze. I'm not on Twitter much, I don't want to do videos, I'm not comfortable being the face of anything. A couple of my earlier posts got filtered and it made the anxiety worse. I keep seeing advice like "build in public" and "post your face everywhere" and it just isn't me.
So I wanted to ask people who are wired like me: how did you get your first real users without being loud about it? Did you find quieter channels that actually worked? Is it possible to grow something while staying mostly behind the scenes, or do I just have to push through the discomfort?
For a bit of context on what I'm building: tinymon, error tracking for early-stage teams at $9/month flat, built to help small teams without draining their budget. The idea I care about most is that outgrowing tinymon should be a happy milestone — a sort of graduation to the bigger tools once a team can afford them. It's only ever meant to help during the early stretch. We're accepting early signups now at tinymon.dev.
Genuinely asking — not looking for a shortcut, just trying to figure out if there's a path that fits how I'm built.