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I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they po
by uncomputation 5y ago
I honestly wonder sometimes if HN is the best place to market a lot of the things that get posted here. A lot of people on HN are developers and I think they post here because it’s _their_ community but in reality it’s actually not a good fit for a lot of products. Maybe some dev/SAAS things, but something like Goodreads? That should be marketed to readers, not developers. The only reason it gets posted here is because the development side is interested (supposedly) in the decentralized technical nature of the product, but that actually matters very little to most people.
- onionisafruit 5y agoI don’t see this as marketing to get new users. It’s more showing peers something interesting you found or are working on. Of course they’ll be happy to get some users from hn, but I suspect that isn’t really the goal here.
- atatatat 5y agoThat this isn't implicitly clear at minimum says a lot about general shift in tone.