Originally published at tensorust.com .

Short answer: Curators feature numbers they can quote, not opinions. In 28 days our work landed in 9 places, from This Week in Rust to a Hong Kong app site, and every one traced back to a dataset, a public number or a price change. Only 2 moved anything we can measure: one newsletter link took an article from 7 visitors to 230 , and two awesome lists with 113,006 stars between them sent back 1 star we can see.

TL;DR: I pulled our own analytics, the GitHub and crates.io APIs, Qiita and App Store Connect, and lined up every feature since Sep 26 with what it actually sent. Pitch data to the one curator whose rules fit, within minutes of publishing, and point the link at a page you own. Skip the awesome-list grind.…