How do you release your plugins into the wild?

[Morphoice]

#metoo

Quoting Wikipedia (since it words it reasonably well): "#MeToo is a social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and rape culture."

Please don't repurpose this hashtag for completely unrelated causes, especially as a degoratory term, because that basically amounts to spitting on the faces of sexual abuse victims.

Just for the record, I was sexually abused and don't feel slapped or spat on by the use of a hashtag. I don't need others to feel offended on my behalf, and I don't think other victims need that either. Most of us would rather just live a normal life and not be constantly reminded of what was done to us — especially not in a forum about audio plugins. Thank you.

[Morphoice]

It gives you a list of a wide variety of places to release your products, along with the ability to generate the e-mails, news items and advertisement copy that is necessary to release your products (based on the scraped product data), gives you a release checklist to help keep your product release organized (like a to-do list for product releases with deep detail), as well as allows you to generate advertisements (header, ad, sidebar images) based on your product information. Also allows you to save the generated ads/images to your projects so you can keep everything organized.

Courtney

So to be clear, it's just a list of links, not a submission service that actually does the promo work for me?

[mystran]

#metoo

Quoting Wikipedia (since it words it reasonably well): "#MeToo is a social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and rape culture."

Please don't repurpose this hashtag for completely unrelated causes, especially as a degoratory term, because that basically amounts to spitting on the faces of sexual abuse victims.

Just for the record, I was sexually abused and don't feel slapped or spat on by the use of a hashtag. I don't need others to feel offended on my behalf, and I don't think other victims need that either. Most of us would rather just live a normal life and not be constantly reminded of what was done to us — especially not in a forum about audio plugins. Thank you.

Good for you. Unfortunately I am constantly being reminded about what was done to me.

[Benedict]

And as someone who was also put-upon in inappropriate ways, I am waaaaaaaay more offended by having what I said & meant (based upon popular usage of the term - piling in on a thing for easy wins*) twisted about to create yet another social attack designed to belittle a person - me in this case.

You paint yourself as a champion of the downtrodden, yet this is clearly nothing but you deliberately treading on a fellow for your own ego ends. Shame, shame, shame.

If you really want to stall trauma, stop this here. Maybe even apologize to the several people you clearly offended. Plus those who kept quiet rather than become targets for personal attack where not warranted in any form. As already noted, this was never the forum for this gaslighting behavior.


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*From your same Wiki article (which reads like a press release): "After millions of people started using the phrase, and it spread to dozens of other languages, the purpose changed and expanded, and as a result, it has come to mean different things to different people."

[VybeCodeDSP]

It gives you a list of a wide variety of places to release your products, along with the ability to generate the e-mails, news items and advertisement copy that is necessary to release your products (based on the scraped product data), gives you a release checklist to help keep your product release organized (like a to-do list for product releases with deep detail), as well as allows you to generate advertisements (header, ad, sidebar images) based on your product information. Also allows you to save the generated ads/images to your projects so you can keep everything organized.

Courtney

So to be clear, it's just a list of links, not a submission service that actually does the promo work for me?

It's a curated list of places you can release your products along with ad/image generation, press kit/press release generation, web scraping and a number of other features that you would normally have to do manually. I'll see about putting together a step by step tutorial for it integrated into the interface.

Courtney

[Touch The Universe]

That sounds useful

[VybeCodeDSP]

It gives you a list of a wide variety of places to release your products, along with the ability to generate the e-mails, news items and advertisement copy that is necessary to release your products (based on the scraped product data), gives you a release checklist to help keep your product release organized (like a to-do list for product releases with deep detail), as well as allows you to generate advertisements (header, ad, sidebar images) based on your product information. Also allows you to save the generated ads/images to your projects so you can keep everything organized.

Courtney

So to be clear, it's just a list of links, not a submission service that actually does the promo work for me?

We've now added an integrated tutorial system, plus an entire e-mail system that allows you to generate your press releases, attach your image assets and e-mail them all from the same page. The e-mail routing is covered by us, as is the AI scraping and copy/text/image generation. So now everything is all within one space to create your press releases automatically, design your advertisements, generate your social media posts, build your e-mail campaigns and send them all out. There's also a developer profile system and a visual asset manager. We're open to adding additional features as well, feel free to let us know if you have an idea you'd like us to consider. Hope that helps

Courtney

[audiojunkie]

Ahoi from Europe.
I’ve been making Plugins for a couple of years now using HISE and faust, more serious over the past two years with a JUNO-6, a CS-80 and a Simmons SDSV emulation which I tried to get to sound as close to the original as possible. That alone was some journey, but actually releasing them into the wild is a whole other one.

Would love to hear about your journeys, how and where do you release your work, where do you sell or even advertise it? Do you work with eg Pluginalliance or any of those companies? What are your experiences with them? Do you offer them for free? Do you charge? How do you set your prices?

I found Gumroad to be quite easy and so far went with a pay what you want model, but out of thousands of downloads, barely anyone donates. I’ve been however approached by some bigger companies and wonder if that’s worth looking into. It seems as with everything everybody wants a piece of the cake as long as you bake it and do the hard work. Unfortunately for weeks I am rather busy with relations rather than making actual DSP, which is my actual forte.

How do you all cope?

I mentioned this to you in another thread as well, but it bears repeating:

You have to be careful what you say to your userbase. You "just barely" started selling your product. It's been in beta until now. You've already said that you are ready to drop Linux support. If you are going to do it, do it quick. But I think that publicizing your considerations is a mistake. Anyone that uses Linux and has been seriously considering buying suddenly just got told that if they purchase this week, it might become abandonware next week. No one wants to buy under those conditions. If you are going to commit to a format, be in it for the long term, otherwise there won't be any confidence in the product. Think about it:

* It was only a few days ago that you decided to try supporting Linux.
* You commented that you aren't sure how committed you are, because you are uncomfortable with Linux
* The product was essentially a beta until just a day or so ago.
* Today you commented on your disappointment of lack of Linux sales and that you are considering dropping support already.

Put yourself into the shoes of a Linux user. The first beta didn't work at all --no sound -- (although the second beta did work). This was reported to your thread, and was emailed to you. The initial response you gave (according to him) was lackluster, which left the user, that was initially very interested in your product, in doubt of your commitment. He directly told me that he wasn't going to buy, because you didn't seem truly committed to supporting Linux.

Secondly, a lot of people don't buy betas. I don't usually buy betas myself. I did buy Zebra3 as a beta, but U-he is an established developer who has built his reputation and trust over the span of decades. It is unusual of me to buy betas. I usually buy when a product is complete and does everything I need/want it to do. In your case, the sound of your synth is enticing for me.

finally, I don't think it's too late, even if you got off to a rough start. But you need to decide as soon as possible how committed you are to your Linux support. If you aren't committed, it's better you end support as soon as possible, so you don't leave any users with abandonware. But if you commit yourself to supporting Linux, you need to be very careful and aware of the things you say to your potential users. The comment you posted today about dropping Linux support just days after leaving beta and beginning sales in earnest is a business killer, not just for potential Linux buyers, but for everyone else who is watching your commitment to your business.

I hope you will take what I say to heart. I am not trying to make you feel bad. I would love to see you successful! I really like the sound of your synths, which is probably the best complement I could give to any developer, since the plugin marketspace is full of dull, lifeless-sounding plugins, and I'm really, really picky when it comes to plugin sound. I want you to succeed. I would love for you to continue supporting Linux (but that's really up to you). I wish you and your business the best.

[chris_notewerks]

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We actually just put together a cool free web app for exactly this type of thing, totally free, no advertising on the site and it's aimed at helping independent plug-in creators, soundset/sound designers release their new stuff, it's called Signalcha.in @ https://signalcha.in (https://signalcha.in). We're working on a similar release platform for music releases as well, hoping to save artists time and money so they don't have to run around looking for a way to do it all in one place

Courtney

This looks like a useful tool, and I’m interested in trying it.

Before adding my AI provider credentials, could you clarify how SignalChain protects them?

Mainly, I’m wondering:

• Are the credentials stored encrypted on your server?

• Are they ever visible to staff or included in diagnostic records?

• Are requests made only from your backend, or can the browser ever see the credential?

• When a user removes the credential or deletes their account, is it removed from your active system?

• Do you recommend users create a separate limited-use provider credential for SignalChain?

Not trying to be difficult, but I think these are important questions for any service that stores user-provided AI access credentials.