What I don't understand is how they ever thought a plugin for Python code were a good match with such a general purpose plugin as minimap. I use Atom (and minimap) to a lot of different things, Python being only one of them.

EDIT: Seems they were planning on adding more languages down the line. Still, the functionality should have been a plugin. Sadly looking at the way they handled this there is a very low chance I will give them another look down the line when they have implemented languages I currently use.

This seems very clumsly done by the dev and it completly backfired on them. I get that you want to get the word out about your startup but maybe create it as a separate plugin and try to get the word out with a post on the regular minimap page or something. Something much more harmless.