Well reducing your audience by a few orders of magnitude is still reducing your 
audience, even it does remain largish. :)

And as a balance to Sturgeon's Law (which is discouragingly true), I present 
this quote from Ira Glass that applies to all those  (even programmers!) that 
dare to make something new.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i-wish

Cheers, bob

On Feb 15, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Young programmers still covers a lot of ground, but I guess we have limited
> our target population to something in the millions (not billions).
> 
> Still, we could always make a bunch of them, run them past some people, see
> what they think, and then try again. But beware that
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law suggests that many of our
> attempts at attracting people will be unappealing to most of them.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Raul
> 

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