[throwaway4good]

I grew up with if you build people will come.

I don’t think it is like that anymore …

[Normille]

Now it's "tell people you're thinking of building it and they will come"

[see Kickstarter et al.]

[delian66]

I think/hope that it is still like that, just that haters are a subset of people, whose opinions are currently disproportionately magnified.