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我最近成为了一名全职独立游戏开发者。虽然我对自己的技术和创意输出很有信心，但如何让别人知道我可能会发布一些有趣且值得大家花时间的东西，这件事似乎变得越来越令人生畏。大多数热门的技术类渠道，比如 HN / 特定的子版块，都需要积极参与社区互动和“刷赞”才能发帖，这对我来说很难投入时间（我宁愿把时间花在开发上）。Twitter(X) / Bluesky 对于游戏开发话题的可见度很低。所有以文字为主的网站，尤其是在 AI 内容泛滥之后，似乎都很难成为有效的自然营销渠道。我更倾向于在进入实际的付费营销阶段（即付费推广；届时我也会考虑 Steam / App Store 级别的营销）时，再使用 IG / Tiktok / Twitch 这些平台。到目前为止，YouTube 似乎是唯一一个算法可能不像其他平台那样具有惩罚性的地方，但它也不是获取高质量反馈的平台（令人惊讶的是，LinkedIn 上的视频表现不错——参与度很高，但我不确定那是否是正确的渠道）。处于类似情况的各位，你们是怎么做的？

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I have recently become a fulltime indie gamedev.While I'm willing to trust myself on technical and creative output, the topic of getting the word out that I might release something interesting and worth people's time seems to have become increasingly daunting. Most popular technical channels like HN / specific sub-reddits require active community participation and "karma-farming" just to be able to post something, which is hard for me to spend time on (I'd rather work on my stuff). Twitter(X) / Bluesky have low visibility for gamedev topics. All text-focused websites seem to have become really hard organic marketing channels especially after AI slop came in.IG / Tiktok / Twitch would be channels I'd rather use when I get into the actual spending-marketing-dollars mode (i.e., inorganic; which is also when I'd get into Steam / App Store level marketing as well).So far, Youtube seems to be the one place where the algorithm might not be quite as punitive as the gates that other places have put up, but it's not a place for getting high-quality feedback (surprisingly videos on LinkedIn do rather well - on engagement but not sure that's the right channel).What do folks here in a similar situation do?

HN 提问：独立开发者如何建立自然增长的吸引力？