Almost all of my customers so far have been directly from the central Anki plugin directory. I made sure to use lots of SEO friendly terms / buzzwords in the title so that when people ctrl+f for AI or ChatGPT, they find mine.
My next steps I think are to better incentivize leaving reviews so that it ranks higher on the add-on list, and then launch it on various language learning subreddits. There’s a whole cottage industry of Anki influencers on YouTube as well (absurd, I know), so that’s another channel eventually.
I am working on https://github.com/furkan/dockerlings, a TUI for learning docker (name and concept inspired by rustlings). It has attracted a surprising but welcome amount of interest, and I'm looking into extending it with more advanced exercise paths. Open to feedback & collaboration from all.
May I ask which channels / approaches benefited you the most in terms of reaching your first paying customers?