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First I'm hearing of Graphy... it's just my lucky after launching https://PlotPanel.com yesterday! My salary throughout was £0!

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I know that sinking feeling you're feeling after discovering a successful competitor but you can totally crush Graphy. Just make sure to differentiate.

Even if not, you could eat a large piece of the pie.

Thank you! I'll be taking a step back to figure out how to move forward... Marketing isn't my strength and I'm solo, but hopefully I can get the word out!

I wish you luck. I am in the same position. I have a working game that my friend made that I picked up and modernized and have been improving tremendously for almost a year or so (alongside my sicknesses and whatnot), but we have no clue where to begin spreading the word. The content may not be enough for it yet. It is playable with some bugs here and there, and work is needed on the map generator and the AI, but yeah... We have some great screenshots, too, and some ideas as to what else we should present on our Patreon page.

If anyone has any ideas in particular, feel free to let me know, please. :)

Put a demo up on itch.io and post them into indie gaming communities.

Errant signal or suoerbunnyhop sometimes check out their mailbox for cool games.

Hey I think I might be able to help with marketing. What's a good way to contact you @batterylow?

Hi Shindi! Sounds great, I'm on Discord if you use it https://discord.gg/fJtetPYd, and my email's on my HN profile :)

PlotPanel looks quite nice for a launch, congrats! (Graphy looks decent too)

For those who work with Python it is hard to beat plotly.js for front end because it transfers almost directly to whatever plots you are doing in your notebooks. Extremely customizable and also powerful.

Well one downside to Plotly is that it is quite heavy about 3-4MB. Couldn't figure out a way to separate different graph types.

Thank you! Plotly is great, I use it myself for some projects

For Python, you may be interested in what PlotPanel is based on, Plotapi (https://plotapi.com)!

Your marketing page is beautiful, kudos.

That's made my day, thank you!

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