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Places to Post Your Startup or Product
- kensai 9y agoThis begs for an application to automatically post on all (or at least most) of them! :D
- stephenitis 9y agoA lazy approach like that would have very mixed results I'd expect. Efficient if bootstrapping and unable to manage it all with a small team though.
- anast 9y agoand looks like it already exists https://promotehour.com https://promotehour.com :)
- minimaxir 9y agoSince this is on front page, here's a little rant about spamming sites with your product: Don't. Yes, discoverability is broken. But that doesn't justify spamming, or other "growth hacking" that the Product Hunt culture has made socially acceptable (in fact, there has been a rise in clever voting manipulation tactics on Hacker News because such tactics have been normalized on PH: https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/status/855661997169364993 https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/status/855661997169364993). Spamming won't magically make you go viral. And if you don't go viral, that's ok. Improve and try again.
- radley 9y agoI'm confused. Are you saying promotion == spam?
- minimaxir 9y agoPosting your product indiscriminately, as is the premise of the OP, is spam. Promoting your product via Twitter or your friends is fine. (promoting a submission on Hacker News [i.e. highlighting the submission itself in an attempt to vote manipulate] is against the site rules, which is not spam but still bad)
- radley 9y agoBut it's not necessarily indiscriminate. Many of these are sites that want submissions. Even Hacker News is OK if you're doing something relevant to the audience. As an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202456
- minimaxir 9y agoEdited my comment to clarify that voting manipulation is bad, not Show HN itself. Show HN of course is fine.
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- LoSboccacc 9y agoif you look at most product startup they all have started with shady growth tactics (stealing contacts or propagating trought fake invites to your contacts or pretending you to be on a network to lure your friends) of course once they did it they where quick to plug the hole and denounce it as unhetical spamming of course isn't a cost effective solution to reach people needing a product, but social network propagation trough referral still is highly effective you can also buy targeted mailing addresses from selected companies, but the big, accurate lists are costly to come by - but those give you an incredibly focused group
- toni 9y agoWho would benefit from posting their product to 125 websites except spammers and growth hackers?
- radley 9y agoa) I'm releasing a Mac app for casual DJs. Mac sites are probably underviewed by my demographic and I only have a few DJ sites I can directly target. b) I don't have to promote to all 125 sites, I can be more targeted. c) You're automatically treating growth hacking as spam. Growth Hacking is a common promotion process - the issue is how it is accomplished. Promoting on lists - good. Making fake websites with fake articles / reviews - not so good. Paying bots to upvote - bad.
- eps 9y agoSpamming is an integral part of growth hacking. As is the contact info acraping and harvesting. Pinning a cool name on these activities doesn't make them any more acceptable.
- welanes 9y agoQuora is probably one of the better resources on that list because rather that listing your product on the shelf next to 1000 others, it allows you to discover people looking for solutions just like yours. For example, say you're building an Android weather widget (for some reason). Build a profile where you're an 'Android', 'Widget', 'Weather' expert and Quora will surface this question for you to answer* : https://www.quora.com/Android-Application-Which-is-the-best-weather-widget https://www.quora.com/Android-Application-Which-is-the-best-... This targeted approach is much more valuable for your product, your time, and for the person asking the question. *Of course it helps to actually have the best weather widget.
- cshenton 9y agoTotally disagree from the user's perspective. Every time I try and use Quora for technical reasons, the answers are almost always people selling their product and not offering a constructive solution to the problem asked. Sure, if the problem is unsolved then it is appropriate. But more often than not, this kind of advertising drowns out actually useful answers. Not least because their 'walk the dinosaur' narrative construction disguises that they are ads until you've read the whole thing.
- mdekkers 9y ago'walk the dinosaur' narrative Never heard this term before, what does it mean?
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- uladzislau 9y agoI'd prefer 25 good reputable vetted places - i guarantee some of these sites are not even loading.
- metalmanac 9y agoHow many of those will actually bring in meaningful traffic? It would be nice to see a list from people who have successfully launched a product on multiple platforms and have traffic numbers to backup their suggestions.
- LoSboccacc 9y agohttps://sumo.com/stories/0-10k-nat-eliason?src=facebook-story-0-10k-nat-eliason https://sumo.com/stories/0-10k-nat-eliason?src=facebook-stor... I found this fascinating. shows the hard work needed to capture a real audience, as opposed to paid eyeballs.
- mdekkers 9y agoAlthough blocked by all my spam filters, this was unexpectedly useful. Thanks for posting.
- LoSboccacc 9y agoyeah they do sell seo :P
- shubhamjain 9y agoProTip: Since these forums are predominately internet-savvy, you're likely to hit more people who are testing the waters rather than trying something that solves their problem. Just don't forget to add "pay me" button. It would sound risky but it's worth it. There is nothing worse than building something that no one is willing to pay for. Trimming down early makes sure that you're building a solution that genuinely solves a problem. At the nascent stages, you don't need to add numbers, only people who are delighted to use your product and are willing to pay for it.
- bshimmin 9y agoSomeone asked the other day about how to get your first 100 users. I guess if you posted to each of these, that might (optimistically) do it. (I'm not suggesting this is a good idea!)
- simplydt 9y agoIf startuplister.com was strategically placed where it was then it worked. They now have my $89 for https://www.chessable.com https://www.chessable.com :) Hope it's worth it!
- anast 9y agoEncountered some problems using some of those, mainly slow review process, lack of integrations and stage specific. So decided to build our own.
- ptrptr 9y agoWhat happened to https://founderkit.com/ https://founderkit.com/ ? It was very promising.
- fgvvbbb 9y agoNice to see