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Everyone who's downvoting or criticizing me is basically saying "yeah whatever, but it's easier said than done", and that is totally true. But you guys are miss
by galistoca 11y ago
Everyone who's downvoting or criticizing me is basically saying "yeah whatever, but it's easier said than done", and that is totally true. But you guys are missing my point, I'm saying objectively there are more avenues for exposure than before. 10 years ago, you really had to use PR agencies and send out press releases, do analyst briefings, and nurture relationship with journalists in order to get the word out. There really weren't many other ways to do this. If you were a small startup it was very hard to get exposure (and like you say, you need evangelists, but even that was harder in the past simply because small startups had no easy way to get the word out) Compare that to nowadays, you're playing on very much level field. There's a big difference between "it's not so easy although it's possible if I try hard enough" vs. "it's virtually impossible".
- palakchokshi 11y agoI see your point that there are more avenues available than before but more avenues != easier to get your product noticed. I think that's where others and me disagree with your premise. I employed all those avenues to promote my 2 products. Anecdotal evidence from end is that a post on HN by someone with high karma still got me all of 200 visits to the website. Getting on the Featured List on PH got 2 signups and 50 upvotes and a total of 156 visits to the website. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ combined totaled 300+ visits to the website.
- galistoca 11y agoOK, let's imagine for a second we're in 2006. Where do you think you would have gone to pitch your projects? Basically I'm asking where else you would have gotten your 200 visits to the website, 2 signups and 50 upvotes and a total of 156 visits to the website, and 300+ visits to the website.