Being an early adopter, this is how I "discovered" a few products (step by step) 1. HN or Reddit front page. 2. When I left a comment, no matter how stupid it

Being an early adopter, this is how I "discovered" a few products (step by step) 1. HN or Reddit front page. 2. When I left a comment, no matter how stupid it was OP respnded positively. 3. I looked them up and followed on Twitter. 4. From time to time I will ask them more stupid things (aka advanced feature requests on beta products). Yet, they are consistently kind to me. 5. Because they are good people, I will plug their products whenever I can. --- On point 1. Understand the culture of where you are posting. I saw in a twitter thread where the founder spent several months building a product, even wrote their own programming language for it but when they posted on HN it barely got any votes. Then another HN user just posted the language aspect of the product and it made it to the FP. There is some definite patterns of success in places like HN and reddit. Making it to FP isn't enough you have to have a discussion surrounding it.