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Show HN: Tiiiny growth ideas for SaaS

76 points by __Gary__ 9y ago

BartBoch 9y ago
Great idea, surely it will help people stuck. This can be a good way to start a day for beginner SaaS owners. The button animation is a bit "crunchy" in Chrome 64.
grepthisab 9y ago
Cool, thought it was a generated quote thing, but looks like a front end for the quotes sitting in index.js. var quotes = [{ "quote": "Create a Crunchbase page" }, { "quote": "Share your website on Startupli.st or Erlibird.com" }, { "quote": "Share your pre-launched website on Betalist.com" }, { "quote": "Respond to unanswered questions in your niche on Quora. Look for questions with a lot of people waiting for an answer.", }, { "quote": "Submit a free press release using a service like PRlog" }, { "quote": "Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events" }, { "quote": "Film your speaking gigs and share videos of your talks on your blog" }, { "quote": "Send personalized E-mails to your existing users, ask for referrals or their help promoting your company" }, { "quote": "Create an infographic, share on free distribution sites like Visual.ly and Pinterest." }, { "quote": "Write a post called â€œOur competitor vs Our Companyâ€ - This will attract search engine traffic looking for reviews of your competitor" }, { "quote": "Submit a presentation or slidedeck to Slideshare" }, { "quote": "Giveaway a free ebook, and let users download it in exchange for their email address" }, { "quote": "Write a â€œhow-toâ€ guide on Medium for something that is difficult in your industry" }, { "quote": "Promote your product in your email signature" }, { "quote": "Sponsor a newsletter on Upstart.me & promote your product to other people's lists" }, { "quote": "Submit your product to Producthunt.com" }, { "quote": "Create a free online course on a topic related to your product" }, { "quote": "Reach out to relevant bloggers and ask to write a guest post on their blog (don't forget to include a link to your project)" }, { "quote": "Update your Linkedin status and link back to your website" }, { "quote": "Grow your social media follower base by following the followers of your competitors" }, { "quote": "Create relevant Youtube videos and add relevant keywords in the title and description" }, { "quote": "Run Facebook Ads" }, { "quote": "Run Google Ads" }, { "quote": "Run Twitter Ads" }, { "quote": "Run Linkedin Ads" }, { "quote": "Subscribe to Helpareporter.com and provide quotes to journalists" }, { "quote": "Reach out to podcasts to get interviewed" }, { "quote": "Start your own podcast" }, { "quote": "Let your first 100 users pay with a tweet, to sign up in exchange for a share" }, { "quote": "Create a Facebook page" }, { "quote": "Make your UI remarkable and shareworthy" }, { "quote": "Run Stumbleupon ads" }, { "quote": "Get an Instagram influencer in your niche to promote your product" }, { "quote": "Get a Youtube influencer in your niche to promote your product" }, { "quote": "Get a popular Facebook page in your niche to promote your product" }, { "quote": "Add screenshots of your product to a Pinterest board" }, { "quote": "Create a profile on Angel.co" }, { "quote": "Ask your friends to share it with their friends" }, { "quote": "Sponsor a hackathon" }, { "quote": "Sponsor an event by offering a service (instead of money) in exchange for promoting your product" }, { "quote": "Go live on Periscope and talk about your product" }, { "quote": "Engage in online forums where your target audience is hanging out" }, { "quote": "Write on-topic comments on Reddit.com where your product seems to be a solution to the discussion" }, { "quote": "Start a Facebook group" }, { "quote": "Post articles to Reddit.com in relevant subreddits" }, { "quote": "Submit your project to ShowHN on Hackernews" }, { "quote": "Comment on industry blogs" }, { "quote": "Host giveaway contests on social media" }, { "quote": "Offer discounts in exchange for sharing your website" }, { "quote": "Create a free Slack community for your target audience" }, { "quote": "Host a webinar" }, { "quote": "Start a daily email newsletter where you link to relevant news that your audience might be interested in" }, { "quote": "Giveaway t-shirts with your logo & website on them" }, { "quote": "Create different landing pages with different messages, that all link to your main website" }, { "quote": "Attend conferences and talk to as many people as you can" }, { "quote": "Be the bonus in someone else's product. Let a different company promote you to their audience in exchange for a commission" }, { "quote": "Got a beautifully designed product? Apply for design awards." }, { "quote": "Create a course on Udemy.com" }, { "quote": "Advertise at conferences"
- newsat13 9y ago
  Of course there is no way to know if the array is generated dynamically on the server :)
hobofan 9y ago
A similar resource in the same vein: https://ladder.io/playbook https://ladder.io/playbook
WingH 9y ago
When I saw "Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events" I misread 'message' as 'massage', and thought that's brilliant!! ..then I saw it read 'message' and was disappointed at the generic advice :(
rglover 9y ago
Thought this was going to be obnoxious but some really great suggestions popping up. Nice work :)
matte_black 9y ago
I would pay to have my own version of this with my own tips!!!
- __Gary__ 9y ago
  You should contact us :)
  - The_DaveG 9y ago
    The best answer!
tim-- 9y ago
curl https://tiiiny.com/js/index.js | grep quote\" | sed -e 's/.*: \"\(.*\)\"/ * \1/' | sort

76 points by __Gary__ 9y ago

Great idea, surely it will help people stuck. This can be a good way to start a day for beginner SaaS owners. The button animation is a bit "crunchy" in Chrome 64.

grepthisab 9y ago

Cool, thought it was a generated quote thing, but looks like a front end for the quotes sitting in index.js. var quotes = [{ "quote": "Create a Crunchbase page" }, { "quote": "Share your website on Startupli.st or Erlibird.com" }, { "quote": "Share your pre-launched website on Betalist.com" }, { "quote": "Respond to unanswered questions in your niche on Quora. Look for questions with a lot of people waiting for an answer.", }, { "quote": "Submit a free press release using a service like PRlog" }, { "quote": "Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events" }, { "quote": "Film your speaking gigs and share videos of your talks on your blog" }, { "quote": "Send personalized E-mails to your existing users, ask for referrals or their help promoting your company" }, { "quote": "Create an infographic, share on free distribution sites like Visual.ly and Pinterest." }, { "quote": "Write a post called â€œOur competitor vs Our Companyâ€ - This will attract search engine traffic looking for reviews of your competitor" }, { "quote": "Submit a presentation or slidedeck to Slideshare" }, { "quote": "Giveaway a free ebook, and let users download it in exchange for their email address" }, { "quote": "Write a â€œhow-toâ€ guide on Medium for something that is difficult in your industry" }, { "quote": "Promote your product in your email signature" }, { "quote": "Sponsor a newsletter on Upstart.me & promote your product to other people's lists" }, { "quote": "Submit your product to Producthunt.com" }, { "quote": "Create a free online course on a topic related to your product" }, { "quote": "Reach out to relevant bloggers and ask to write a guest post on their blog (don't forget to include a link to your project)" }, { "quote": "Update your Linkedin status and link back to your website" }, { "quote": "Grow your social media follower base by following the followers of your competitors" }, { "quote": "Create relevant Youtube videos and add relevant keywords in the title and description" }, { "quote": "Run Facebook Ads" }, { "quote": "Run Google Ads" }, { "quote": "Run Twitter Ads" }, { "quote": "Run Linkedin Ads" }, { "quote": "Subscribe to Helpareporter.com and provide quotes to journalists" }, { "quote": "Reach out to podcasts to get interviewed" }, { "quote": "Start your own podcast" }, { "quote": "Let your first 100 users pay with a tweet, to sign up in exchange for a share" }, { "quote": "Create a Facebook page" }, { "quote": "Make your UI remarkable and shareworthy" }, { "quote": "Run Stumbleupon ads" }, { "quote": "Get an Instagram influencer in your niche to promote your product" }, { "quote": "Get a Youtube influencer in your niche to promote your product" }, { "quote": "Get a popular Facebook page in your niche to promote your product" }, { "quote": "Add screenshots of your product to a Pinterest board" }, { "quote": "Create a profile on Angel.co" }, { "quote": "Ask your friends to share it with their friends" }, { "quote": "Sponsor a hackathon" }, { "quote": "Sponsor an event by offering a service (instead of money) in exchange for promoting your product" }, { "quote": "Go live on Periscope and talk about your product" }, { "quote": "Engage in online forums where your target audience is hanging out" }, { "quote": "Write on-topic comments on Reddit.com where your product seems to be a solution to the discussion" }, { "quote": "Start a Facebook group" }, { "quote": "Post articles to Reddit.com in relevant subreddits" }, { "quote": "Submit your project to ShowHN on Hackernews" }, { "quote": "Comment on industry blogs" }, { "quote": "Host giveaway contests on social media" }, { "quote": "Offer discounts in exchange for sharing your website" }, { "quote": "Create a free Slack community for your target audience" }, { "quote": "Host a webinar" }, { "quote": "Start a daily email newsletter where you link to relevant news that your audience might be interested in" }, { "quote": "Giveaway t-shirts with your logo & website on them" }, { "quote": "Create different landing pages with different messages, that all link to your main website" }, { "quote": "Attend conferences and talk to as many people as you can" }, { "quote": "Be the bonus in someone else's product. Let a different company promote you to their audience in exchange for a commission" }, { "quote": "Got a beautifully designed product? Apply for design awards." }, { "quote": "Create a course on Udemy.com" }, { "quote": "Advertise at conferences"

newsat13 9y ago
Of course there is no way to know if the array is generated dynamically on the server :)

hobofan 9y ago

A similar resource in the same vein: https://ladder.io/playbook https://ladder.io/playbook

WingH 9y ago

When I saw "Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events" I misread 'message' as 'massage', and thought that's brilliant!! ..then I saw it read 'message' and was disappointed at the generic advice :(

rglover 9y ago

Thought this was going to be obnoxious but some really great suggestions popping up. Nice work :)

matte_black 9y ago

I would pay to have my own version of this with my own tips!!!

__Gary__ 9y ago
You should contact us :)
- The_DaveG 9y ago
  The best answer!

tim-- 9y ago

curl https://tiiiny.com/js/index.js | grep quote\" | sed -e 's/.*: \"\(.*\)\"/ * \1/' | sort