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I never hear about these companies until their shutdown announcement. Perhaps if they spent more time becoming visible and getting people's attention, things w
by whatnotests 10y ago
I never hear about these companies until their shutdown announcement.
Perhaps if they spent more time becoming visible and getting people's attention, things would work out.
- jpallen 10y agoIn our defence, this post has had more than twice the attention of our Show HN post! I think there's more drama in something like a shutdown and so it's more 'viral'. Getting people to take interest in a new product is much harder. (Also, HN is not really a good target audience for us, so if you get news from here, it makes sense you'd see this but not the product itself).
- pavlov 10y agoWith thousands and thousands of startups competing for your attention, it's not that easy! In many markets, there are several well-funded startups that can afford to spend millions on marketing. That makes it even harder to get visibility as a bootstrapper.
- specialist 10y agoI don't think that's fair. We live in an attention economy, where the rare few are good at getting noticed.