It is enough that one make a viral blogpost detailing why he thinks your software sucks, for a lot of people to instantly put your software in the "won't touch" category though.
How much blog posts about software do you think regular folks read?
Zero, probably, but one might argue that opinions of power users have somewhat of a disproportionate weight in that they influence close friends and family much more than those of average users.
e.g. music making forums such as GearSlutz / KVR have 380k / 390k members. DPReview, for all things photography has millions of posts. And only a small portion of people are active, the immense majority just reads without registering an account - for instance the current ratio in gearslutz is 8:1 (714 members and 5929 guests).
> It is enough that one make a viral blogpost detailing why he thinks your software sucks, for a lot of people to instantly put your software in the "won't touch" category though.
People in general just want an app that does what they want to be done. A lot just install the first search result, some will look at options and comparisons. But saying one blog post will make a lot of people put a software in the 'dont touch' category doesn't seem that realistic