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Step 1: get popular on user driven site. (HN, reddit, digg, etc...) Step 2: blogs like Mashable and TC see popular post and pick it up Step 3: mainstream medi
by speg 14y ago
Step 1: get popular on user driven site. (HN, reddit, digg, etc...)
Step 2: blogs like Mashable and TC see popular post and pick it up
Step 3: mainstream media see it spreading through blogosphere and pick it up.
- pramodbiligiri 14y agoThanks. Our product is somewhat specialized (bioinformatics) and we've gotten some traction among that demographic. Was wondering if Reddit/Digg will boost it much :) On 2nd thoughts, you're right. I will go submit on Reddit and friends. More eyes on it the better.
- fab1an 14y agoYou might be aware of this already, but when posting to Reddit, make sure to use the appropriate subreddit - in your case http://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics http://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics, which has 2,790 subscribers. Posting to Reddit generically won't get you anywhere. If your product has a certain application angle that could be interesting/funny/relevant to larger subreddits you could try to create an infographic hosted on imgur - as cool as Reddit's community is, their attention spans are rather short and most people won't read / upvote a lengthy article (safe specific subreddits, I bet things over at r/bioinformatics are different.) Good luck with your startup. EDIT: semantics.
- pramodbiligiri 14y agoI read /r/programming regularly. Hadn't thought of looking for /r/bioinformatics! Btw, EyeQuant looks nice, but the activation email went to Spam (Y! Mail for small businesses), and the password in there isn't working :(
- pramodbiligiri 14y agoMy bad regarding the password. Had copied surrounding whitespace.