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Product Hunt currently does books and podcasts, but that part of that community is considerably smaller than the rest of the site. How will you attract the fir

by atroyn 11y ago

Product Hunt currently does books and podcasts, but that part of that community is considerably smaller than the rest of the site. How will you attract the first readers and authors to your platform? How will you ensure a high standard of quality, both in submissions and in discussion?

rayalez 11y ago
At the moment I am personally looking for great authors, and asking them if they would like to join(or allow me to add their stories). We already have some pretty amazing authors and stories(check out http://fictionhub.io/story/the-metropolitan-man http://fictionhub.io/story/the-metropolitan-man for example). Great fiction attracts readers, and as we grow our audience of readers - other authors have more incentives to join. To maintain the high quality of content, we will have an invite system - new authors post their stories to the "sandbox"(a list of unapproved posts), and existing members of the community can send invites to the authors of stories they like. So we start with a few great writers, and organically grow from there.
- atroyn 11y ago
  What else could you do to attract readers? How are they hearing about the site now? Is there a particular kind of reader/author you're trying to appeal to first? I would love to see an alternative to 1.) Fiction publishers as middle man and 2.) Awful self-published fiction in the kindle store.
  - rayalez 11y ago
    I want to grow organically, through the content quality and word of mouth. Right now most of the people come from social networks(reddit, medium, tumblr). I am an aspiring writer myself, so as I promote my own work, and works of other writers, people discover the platform. Also I've been thinking about creating fiction writing competitions - that would attract more writers, create original content, and give us some publicity. And, many of the writers have their own audience, so if they choose to use fictionhub as their main platform - they will bring their readers with them. Ideally, I would like to first attract readers and writers of rational fiction(basically hard SciFi, you can read more about it here: http://fictionhub.io/story/rational-fiction http://fictionhub.io/story/rational-fiction), that is people from HN and /r/rational.

by atroyn 11y ago

rayalez 11y ago

At the moment I am personally looking for great authors, and asking them if they would like to join(or allow me to add their stories). We already have some pretty amazing authors and stories(check out http://fictionhub.io/story/the-metropolitan-man http://fictionhub.io/story/the-metropolitan-man for example). Great fiction attracts readers, and as we grow our audience of readers - other authors have more incentives to join. To maintain the high quality of content, we will have an invite system - new authors post their stories to the "sandbox"(a list of unapproved posts), and existing members of the community can send invites to the authors of stories they like. So we start with a few great writers, and organically grow from there.

atroyn 11y ago
What else could you do to attract readers? How are they hearing about the site now? Is there a particular kind of reader/author you're trying to appeal to first? I would love to see an alternative to 1.) Fiction publishers as middle man and 2.) Awful self-published fiction in the kindle store.
- rayalez 11y ago
  I want to grow organically, through the content quality and word of mouth. Right now most of the people come from social networks(reddit, medium, tumblr). I am an aspiring writer myself, so as I promote my own work, and works of other writers, people discover the platform. Also I've been thinking about creating fiction writing competitions - that would attract more writers, create original content, and give us some publicity. And, many of the writers have their own audience, so if they choose to use fictionhub as their main platform - they will bring their readers with them. Ideally, I would like to first attract readers and writers of rational fiction(basically hard SciFi, you can read more about it here: http://fictionhub.io/story/rational-fiction http://fictionhub.io/story/rational-fiction), that is people from HN and /r/rational.