I've been building https://www.findlectures.com https://www.findlectures.com, and have ~400 people on an email list and a few hundred people a day use the site,

I've been building https://www.findlectures.com https://www.findlectures.com, and have ~400 people on an email list and a few hundred people a day use the site, primarily from having articles written about the project on TNW / Lifehacker. Some observations: * I work directly with a couple end users who really like the project, which gives much better feedback than posting on reddit, etc * Build features that help more technical users (in my case, facets for programming languages)- people who come from HN / twitter give better feedback, write better tickets, and are more able to tell others if they like the app * As far as promotion, I've had success with HN comments, guest posts on dev.to, and the startups reddit. All three have exposed the app to people with much larger audiences. * The email lists Cooper Press manages are good to write for, because they pick up a lot of their content from niche subreddits. * People who write articles about you rely heavily on material you've posted about yourself / your project (either on your own site, or in comments here). * Some Simple UI features communicate what your project does better than verbal explanations (e.g. for a search engine, help text that shows example searches for different features) * Any articles you write you can re-purpose in emails you send out, or vice-versa, so the time you spent doesn't get wasted if one approach doesn't work * There is a compelling psychological benefit to posting a project on reddit (etc) in comments - every time I do, I think of some minor way I could improve the project. This is a bit like code reviews, where the pressure of showing someone your work makes you do a better job. * Broadening the scope of what you can do gives you a lot more to talk about publicly. E.g. you might not be an expert in AI, but if you do a couple experiments on a dataset you have, you can participate in all those forum threads. See also: https://www.findlectures.com/articles/2016/12/19/FindLectures-com-A-Launch-Story/ https://www.findlectures.com/articles/2016/12/19/FindLecture...