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Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?
Hello there!
I want to collect websites where I can feature (list) my SaaS-startup for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French speaking audience. I know that there're a lot of listing's set for English speaking but I haven't met for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French.
If you know some that websites, please, write it in the comments. I'll put it together in a single list and then post it here.
- ktaube 3y agoEuropean: https://starwatcher.io https://starwatcher.io Relevant only if you want to get some exposure to european investors though.
- raverbashing 3y agoAlso https://sifted.eu/ https://sifted.eu/
- OnlyMateo 3y agoThanks!
- OnlyMateo 3y agoThanks!
- rom16384 3y agoFor the Portuguese market you can try Pplware [1] [1] https://pplware.sapo.pt/ https://pplware.sapo.pt/
- jeanlucas 3y agoThere is no true player in Brazil, but I think an easy access to news outlet for tech if you use TabNews [1], a HackerNews clone made by a tech influencer where he uses as source for his newsletter. edit* Just a heads up: the tech influencer behind it usually doesn't give sources when getting content from TabNews. So it may be a flop. [1]: https://www.tabnews.com.br/ https://www.tabnews.com.br/
- CedricTeyton 3y agoFor French PR: - https://www.maddyness.com/ https://www.maddyness.com/ - https://www.frenchweb.fr/ https://www.frenchweb.fr/ - https://www.presse-citron.net/ https://www.presse-citron.net/ - https://www.journaldunet.com/ https://www.journaldunet.com/ - https://www.rudebaguette.com/ https://www.rudebaguette.com/
- jjgreen 3y agoFrench: https://www.journalduhacker.net/ https://www.journalduhacker.net/
- nicoco 3y agoToday I discovered something in French on an English website. Thanks!
- jjgreen 3y agoDe rien !
- w-m 3y ago"pas de commentaire" for all but two articles on the front page though, unfortunately :(
- vgalin 3y agoIt appears to be invite-only (even though you can request an invite). I'm not sure about what drove them to do so, but that may be why there is not much activity on the website.
- maeln 3y agoWhen it comes to startup, welcome to the jungle is probably the reference: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/media https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/media Although it is a professional outlet, so it's not like you can expect to just publish there for free.
- OnlyMateo 3y agoYeah, thanks
- OnlyMateo 3y agoThanks. I'll try it)
- base 3y agoThe Next Web: https://thenextweb.com/ https://thenextweb.com/
- wslh 3y agoI don't know of any significant Spanish website where you can feature your startup. The Spanish speaking community is mostly featured in English websites. Websites in Spanish are too fragmented.
- polonbike 3y agoMy readlist in French is https://www.journalduhacker.net/ https://www.journalduhacker.net/ , as suggested in another comment, and https://linuxfr.org/ https://linuxfr.org/, covering open source, if it applies to your product. Then Hackernews, but you are already here. Appart from that, it depends on your product. You will need to communicate through the niche channels your SaaS is adressing (aka woodworking channels for a woodworking Saas, etc ...)
- OnlyMateo 3y agoI think about some lists like this https://www.submitjuice.com/directories https://www.submitjuice.com/directories but not only for English-speaking audience. May be some UGC-based websites like vc.ru for Russian-speaking.
- joot82 3y agoBiggest IT news site in Germany is heise.de, they also have a catalogue with software and service providers - you can contact their team at software@heise.de (if it's a commercial proposal with subject: "Kommerzielle Listung bei heise Download" according to their FAQ at https://www.heise.de/download/page/Haeufig-gestellte-Fragen-zu-heise-Download-3140200#anchor_7 https://www.heise.de/download/page/Haeufig-gestellte-Fragen-... )
- OnlyMateo 3y agoThanks for your advice! May be there're some listings like this https://www.submitjuice.com/directories https://www.submitjuice.com/directories but for German-speaking? Or UGC-based websites about startups?
- aweb 3y agoFor french, there's a decent website similar to Product Hunt: https://lespepitestech.com/ https://lespepitestech.com/ It has a good following and a weekly e-mail list so it's probably worth it to post there as well
- Ligma123 3y agoFor Portugal you might contact https://startupportugal.com/ https://startupportugal.com/ This one is an official website for a government program, but I think it's for Portuguese companies https://portugaldigital.gov.pt/acelerar-a-transicao-digital-em-portugal/empreendedorismo-e-startups/ecossistema-portugues-de-startups/ https://portugaldigital.gov.pt/acelerar-a-transicao-digital-...
- OnlyMateo 3y agoThanks
- franciscop 3y agoThis reminds me I've talked a dozen times with a friend whether we should start a "Spanish Hacker News", right now the closest thing is small dev Slacks on a per-city basis.
- OnlyMateo 3y agoMay be you have some lists of Slack's city community?
- franciscop 3y agoNot really, haven't been there for few years, but there was one in each city. The most active one was the one in BCN though: https://bcneng.org/ https://bcneng.org/
- nelsondev 3y agoExpanding from OPs question, but how about a Chinese website along same lines?
- OnlyMateo 3y agoOh, if you have, please, share it)
- byte_0 3y agoSorry that my comment provides little to no value to the original question: being a native Spanish speaker from Latin America, in my 10 years in IT, I have been so far unable to find a site that comes close to any tech forum or something like Hacker News. I agree with franciscop that there should be a Spanish Hacker News. The problem is: what content would it be fed with, as quality content is scarce.
- gota 3y agoAnd why wouldn't that content be translated into English anyway? I struggle to imagine such local-specific topics that they couldn't/wouldn't draw attention here at HN
- garbagecoder 3y agoquizá https://www.meneame.net https://www.meneame.net ?
- OnlyMateo 3y agoI think about not only HN but just about lists like this https://www.submitjuice.com/directories https://www.submitjuice.com/directories for not only English-speaking.
- thyselius 3y agoOnly half related to Op’s question but I’m thinking a lot about this right now as i just translated my iPhone app to 11 languages and released the update a week ago. I see NO additional downloads and I’m really curious to why. If anyone here has some experience or insight I’d really love to hear about it.
- DiggyJohnson 3y agoNot to state the obvious, but the null hypothesis would be: there's no demand. English has a whole lot of market-share in the technical world - for better or for worse.
- nottorp 3y agoWhat does the app do? If it's for techies/power users ... all of my desktops and mobile devices have the OS set to English. I simply don't care to see another "creative" translation in my menus. I think my 70+ mother has her phone set to Romanian. My father... don't think so.
- comte7092 3y agoWhat marketing have you done for this effort? Why would people who speak those languages be aware of your app?
- OnlyMateo 3y agoYou should do some ASO and content marketing (reviews and etc) for each new language audience.
- jeanlucas 3y agoHeads up, "Portuguese" you mean Portugal, Brazil, and/or Africa? Those audiences are completely different in size, ticket, and so on.
- bloudermilk 3y agoTo be fair you could say that about all the languages listed by OP. Colonial/imperial histories and all that…
- OnlyMateo 3y agoYeah, I mean Brazil, Portugal and etc with Protuguese speaking audience. I think that if you do some SaaS or App firstly it's about language for users and not important about country.
- arijo 3y agoList of 63 Portuguese Startups: https://www.seedtable.com/startups-portugal https://www.seedtable.com/startups-portugal
- OnlyMateo 3y agoCan I add my startup to that list?
- ppjim 3y agoThere are some in Spanish https://elreferente.es/ https://elreferente.es/ https://startupslatam.com/ https://startupslatam.com/ https://loogic.com/ https://loogic.com/ https://startupchile.org/en/ https://startupchile.org/en/
- resing 3y ago[dead]