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Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup?
I have been trying to get some major tech websites coverage for my new startup but they don't even seem to read my emails and if they do, they don't even send me a reply. I have tried to make connections with some of their authors but that didn't work either!
- sharemywin 13y agoI read somewhere on here about a process of starting with smaller blogs and feeding a news story from there because bigger news outlets source stories from smaller sites, etc. might check out this post too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138
- kdforf 13y agoThanks for sharing, Do you know any good and small tech websites that I can use for this purpose?
- sharemywin 13y agoyou might try googling: "[your niche] blog" "[your niche forum" "[your niche] comparision" etc. look for keyword tools around your niche. search twitter for keywords aroudn yuor niche.
- cunninghamd 13y agoOr use technorati's search engine, and work through the top 100 backwards. That's the suggestion I recently read.
- sharemywin 13y agowhat does your startup do?
- kdforf 13y agoIt is kind of a Google Reader alternative but in a much creative way than all those Google Reader clones such as Feedly or AOL Reader
- b3b0p 13y agoIs this it? http://picktoread.com/ http://picktoread.com/
- kdforf 13y agoYes :D
- ibudiallo 13y agoDid you do a show HN?
- kdforf 13y agoyes I did but it didn't make it to the first page!
- petervandijck 13y agoThat's not interesting to any tech blog. Because 1. the googleReaderIsDead story is dead now, and 2. "A new kind of a Google Reader Alternative" is not a story anyone would want to read. If you want to be in the news, you need something newsy. Some kind of hook. If you can't find that, you're not newsy, nobody will be interested in your project and they won't write about you. Is there anything at all about the app that stands out? That would peek someone's interest? Once you identify that, you can try contacting them again. You need a pitch. In other words: HOW is it new and interesting? WHAT makes it so great?
- ig1 13y agoMike Butcher wrote a good guide to it: http://www.slideshare.net/mikebutcher/how-to-deal-with-tech-media-by-mikebutcher http://www.slideshare.net/mikebutcher/how-to-deal-with-tech-...
- grishma 13y agovideo of same & 2 others: https://www.themediagraph.com/blog/2013/pitching-a-startup-to-journalists-three-great-videos https://www.themediagraph.com/blog/2013/pitching-a-startup-t...
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- zane123 13y agoHIGHLY Suggest making the login/register fields, boxes, buttons smaller...
- ohashi 13y agoI wrote up how I got TechCrunch to cover my launch. I didn't really have the connections or relationships. A big part was luck. http://kevinohashi.com/27/11/2012/reverse-engineering-startup-press-how-and-why-techcrunch-covered-my-launch http://kevinohashi.com/27/11/2012/reverse-engineering-startu...