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People share what they find remarkable and recommend what they find useful.

Instead of focusing on web traffic, consider making something that just 10 people find remarkable, get excited about, or can’t live without. Chances are if 10 people find it remarkable they will tell others. And then you can accelerate that process by sharing it with others like them.

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I think this ignores the fact that building something that gets spread through word of mouth is remarkably difficult and doesn't happen on the first iteration of the product.

All while those initial visitors have come and gone - how do you replicate traffic? I think OP needs to take a hand to hand combat route and just find those initial users himself while he searches for at least a semblance of interest.

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