Are we, though?

My experience has been almost all positive.

Devs love to give feedback. Devs have decent paying jobs, and therefore money to purchase devtools (ours is $79) Devs love trying out new things and being early adopters.

Why is it a terrible market?

I'm building and marketing a database client for the last 5 months, and what worked for me was:

1. Keeping a consistent devlog on YouTube. It's the #1 source of traffic.

2. Getting a rank 1, page 1 HN post for a technical blog post related to our product.

3. Word of mouth. It's slow, but it works.

Just thought I'd chip in. The devlogs work the best though. Plus they keep momentum.

I'm building DB Pro, a better database client.

I just released support for dashboards. I've kept a devlog for the past 6 months.

https://youtu.be/EEA73e6MH1c

And the biggest update is coming soon, DB Pro Cloud, which will let you connect to and manage any database through your browser as well as collaborate with your team.

Imagine Postman but for databases.

https://dbpro.app