Life after the merge: why publishing an Obsidian plugin is just the beginning (opens in new tab)

I built Snipsy because I was typing - [ ] fifty times a day and getting annoyed about it. That's a true sentence and also a misleading one. The text expander I built for Obsidian is a one-week problem, technically. The actual project, the part that took nine months and 28 releases, was figuring out how to keep a thing alive after you've shipped the first version. I knew none of this when I started. Nine months later, Snipsy sits at almost 1000 downloads in the Obsidian community plugins catal...