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Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase
- tmnvix 10y agohttps://www.producthunt.com/ https://www.producthunt.com/
- bangda 10y agoBut i am guessing product hunt does not showcase all products. There is a whole selection process.
- sideproject 10y agowell, it DOES list everything (in the 'new today' tab I think). But by default it shows the ranked list of products. In that sense, it works similar to HN where only top Show HNs are displayed in the homepage.
- charlieegan3 10y agoYou need someone else to list your first product I think.
- franciscop 10y agoI had a bad experience: 1. It was invitation-only when I tried to join it. No real complain here, it just didn't make sense for this kind of page and I don't like it. 2. Then a couple of projects of mine got to the front-page of HN and someone -- I am guessing an admin -- added them to Product Hunt with an email I never gave them which resulted in waves of SPAM. I cannot stress the 2nd point enough. Imagine that you make a project, a random person re-publishes it in some network you were denied entering and now for every person who comments in there you get a low-quality email. Edit: for clarity I hope
- j_s 10y agoI don't understand I cannot stress [...] enough: someone [...] added them to Product Hunt with an email I never gave them which resulted in waves of SPAM You do not use filters? Free feedback, straight to your inbox!
- franciscop 10y agoAs far as I remember the feedback was a lot like cool project!, which is also nice but nothing compared with the previous front-page of HN as it was the same positive sentiment but with a lot of useful comments. About filters I use Gmail, so mostly use the stock ones which are good for bot SPAM, but not for user-generated comments.
- j_s 10y agoDifferentiating user-generated comments can be a pain; I would hope ProductHunt sends notification emails from the same source! Thanks for filling in the additional detail.
- Jack000 10y agodon't forget to use a "no hunt" badge or this might happen: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/colormind https://www.producthunt.com/posts/colormind I mean, not complaining or anything but I did not expect a beta signup page to get hunted. Didn't find out until three weeks later when I tried to submit the product. eg. one of these badges https://thenextweb.com/media/2015/02/02/want-get-product-hunt-not-quite-ready-get-plz-dont-hunt-yet-badge/ https://thenextweb.com/media/2015/02/02/want-get-product-hun...
- minimaxir 10y agoObligatory link to "How Product Hunt really works": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 That was posted over a year ago; since then, things have gotten even worse with regards to elitism and the fairness of the system (nowadays the name of the game is figuring out how to market your Product Hunt submission to your network of friends without explicitly asking for upvotes, unless you're famous/VC in which case you're allowed to be blatant). My original rant on the topic after the acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080432 I've recently given up calling out the voting manipulation on Product Hunt because everyone calls me a buzzkill for doing so.
- Jemaclus 10y agoKeep up the good work.
- graystevens 10y agohttps://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup They've put together a very comprehensive list of places to post your startup, and some will certainly be relevant to just side projects etc. Depending on what you're looking to showcase. This will certainly be one source I'll look to, for what I launch my side project.
- bangda 10y agoThis is very good. Thank you.
- cdiamand 10y agoI've had some great luck promoting http://oppsdaily.com http://oppsdaily.com with some of the subreddits mentioned. In addition, http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence does a weekly self-promotion thread which has been a nice little bump in traffic. https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/5y7bfe/weekly_selfpromotion_thread_march_08_2017/ https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/5y7b...
- NicoJuicy 10y agoI'm actually building http://tagly.azurewebsites.net http://tagly.azurewebsites.net It's like HN with tags and custom functionality. I use it mostly as bookmarking service about AI and Machine learning. Example of custom tag, here is the tag: CommentsByHackernews -- http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Item/Details?id=7febe5f0-fe64-436e-955f-63aa8cd7387c http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Item/Details?id=7febe5f0-fe64... Fyi: Currently, i have never send an email to the ones who subscribed. So if you're interested : https://goo.gl/forms/obYXBzhIE14kZcM73 https://goo.gl/forms/obYXBzhIE14kZcM73
- rlancer 10y agoI'm the CTO of Collaborizm.com a great place to post and get feedback from a global tech minded audience.
- NicoJuicy 10y agohttp://www.Collaborizm.com http://www.Collaborizm.com ;) PS. Almost all the menu items on top redirect to /home
- bangda 10y agoSo we can showcase any product on the site? or is there any criteria?
- Raphmedia 10y agoProbably a false positive but https://www.collaborizm.com/ https://www.collaborizm.com/ triggers a warning from Bitdefender : "Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools blocked this page The page is blocked by Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools Cloud (Phishing). Access from your browser has been blocked."
- samsolomon 10y agoIf it's design-centric or technology that can helpdesigners, I'd suggest posting it on Designer News. The kind of designers on there varies, but I would say most are UI, product and front-end types. https://www.designernews.co/ https://www.designernews.co/
- jiten_bansal 10y agohttps://betapage.co https://betapage.co
- j_s 10y agoShow HN is good for technical feedback, but often HN won't match up well with the target audience. An example where this comes up is when HN commenters complain about how they never read email newsletters so the sign up form / email required / create an account step is a "complete waste of time" (but email works!). The most effective approach to actually getting customers is to build a reputation as a problem-solver within the specific, related niche communities and then offer the new tool as an alternative solution to problems. Most people posting HN front-page follow-up note how the wave of traffic doesn't typically convert well.
- grey-area 10y agoIf it's for a specific niche, probably best to contact newsletters or news sites about that niche, and try to get them to feature it, that's better than showing something to HN or similar sites. If you pick news outlets targeted at your subject area you get a specific audience who is already interested in your idea and is a much easier sell, and you might get far more useful feedback - you want to talk to potential customers ideally. You don't say what you want to showcase, it might help if you did as then people could give specific suggestions. If it's Go related (written in Go or about Go), it's welcome at https://golangnews.com https://golangnews.com
- apeduru 10y agoIs there a Rust equivalent to golangnews?
- grey-area 10y agoDon't know of any, would be interested in seeing one, I'm not so keen on Reddit but there is probably a subreddit. They do also have a forum but that's a different kind of thing.
- kam 10y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/rust/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/ and https://this-week-in-rust.org/ https://this-week-in-rust.org/
- maxpert 10y agoI have been on http://lobste.rs http://lobste.rs for quite a while now it's a small community with quality stories. But you need an invite to join.
- grey-area 10y agoDo you give out invites? I would like to join but didn't know who to ask.
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- solutionyogi 10y agoThis community looks great. Would you mind giving out an invite?
- penetrarthur 10y agoThe programming discussions are really sad there.
- walrus 10y agoCan you explain? I've found it more focused on systems and security than HN, but it seems like a generally smart and capable crowd.
- penetrarthur 10y agoThere was a discussion on the frontpage which can basically be summarized to "fuck classes, prototypes ftw!". It's like people haven't worked on big projects ever.
- bitmedley 10y agowould love an invite if anyone has one to spare. Going to be launching my startup soon.
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- TACIXAT 10y agoI made a Discord channel [1] for startups and entrepreneurs. The goal is to have a place to hangout, share ideas, and chat with similarly ambitious people. It's pretty new, but every time someone in there has posted their site people have checked it out and given feedback. 1. Point at Infinity - https://discord.gg/F4jjKu7 https://discord.gg/F4jjKu7
- juancampa 10y agoA good place to get some exposure pre-launch: https://betalist.com/ https://betalist.com/ Edit: here's an IFTTT recipe to get an email when a new startup is posted. So far this has been my main interface with betalist https://ifttt.com/applets/13031p-email-me-when-a-new-startup-is-featured-on-betalist https://ifttt.com/applets/13031p-email-me-when-a-new-startup...
- awinter-py 10y agoFB/google ads
- rayalez 10y agoI've recently made a StartupFeedback subreddit. It's still very small, but I think you might find it useful. https://www.reddit.com/r/StartupFeedback/ https://www.reddit.com/r/StartupFeedback/
- omar3550 10y agoThis Thread is God-sent, thank you! We are almost done with the first version of our app - will be out around April!