I’m not sure about this comment though:
“Learn to market yourself and your content. Quit being lazy waiting for Medium to do it for you.”
Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps.
HN, Reddit, and other social networks?
Not to mention the fact that if you self-submit anything to those sites people tend to take it as an invitation to eviscerate you.
If you aren't a regular poster on the sub that you're placing the link on, why would posters bother opening said link? You have to participate in the community as well, and that includes providing content in the form of Reddit posts as well, because Reddit users don't like clicking outbound links with no context.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the goal of "marketing" is in this context, however.