I'm not the person you were replying to and I also don't have a good answer to the question, but man, the giddiness I feel at the idea of yeeting every single sales department on the planet directly into the stratosphere... Pure euphoria.

However that would work, i dont care. Open source software has next to no marketing and I've found it all through chat groups, etc.

I've found my local super market and bakery simply by walking by

I buy toothpaste by trying a few and sticking by one I like

I never watch commercials, I don't do advertising or marketing, and I'm missing out on nothing

There used to be a business catalog book called “yellow pages”. Now there are map applications, price comparison sites, customer review sites, and keyword search engines. All of those make advertisements unnecessary.

By growing.