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Similar problem, what I am trying currently is niche reddit boards to try and launch. It is a fine line between spammy and getting people to hear about your st
by boldslogan 6y ago
Similar problem, what I am trying currently is niche reddit boards to try and launch.
It is a fine line between spammy and getting people to hear about your stuff. If you click my account, I posted twice, with a big space between each post about my product with a pretty big update for each on HN. When you click people's accounts who have a high ranking show HN post, they seem to post 2 or 3 times in a row to get it to catch. I am not sure the secret.
My only advice is to look at the dropbox show HN and take that as inspiration that anything is possible!
- gnicholas 6y ago> When you click people's accounts who have a high ranking show HN post, they seem to post 2 or 3 times in a row to get it to catch. I am not sure the secret. A lot of it is luck. I posted a Show HN years ago, on a whim, and it became one of the top-10 Show HNs ever. It led to coverage in Fast Company and dozens of other outlets. In subsequent months, I posted about significant updates (bookmarklet -> Chrome extension, new PDF tool), and those posts went nowhere. It is hard to know why things catch on sometimes. I'm still working on the same project, and I have HN (and the luck of that first post) to thank for it!
- ALittleLight 6y agoThis is a very general problem for aggregators - time and luck are big factors. Time, because there is new stuff on the front page every day, and luck because with new submissions, only a small amount of people are going to see them, and if that small amount aren't a good fit, then the submission is going nowhere.