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http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com - (duh), post with Show HN, easy submission, will get listed on http://showinghn.com/ http://showinghn.c

http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com - (duh), post with Show HN, easy submission, will get listed on http://showinghn.com/ http://showinghn.com/ and http://hnshowcase.com http://hnshowcase.com as well. http://betali.st http://betali.st - quite well known, moderated, gets a decent amount of traffic if you get featured, not too many form fields to fill out. http://www.kickoffboost.com http://www.kickoffboost.com - moderated, and relatively new, easy submission http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject - moderated, easy submission https://www.sideprojectors.com https://www.sideprojectors.com - relatively new, easy submission http://thestartuppitch.com http://thestartuppitch.com - moderated, has quite a few more form fields to fill out than others http://www.erlibird.com/startups http://www.erlibird.com/startups - paid $149, last time checked out http://forrst.com http://forrst.com - Easy submission, used to be a great community for feedback - not sure now http://www.bootstrappist.com http://www.bootstrappist.com - a mailing list of bootstrapped projects - has quite a few subscribers I think. http://angel.co http://angel.co - Angelist, of course - new startups gets tweeted via various accounts http://crunchbase.com http://crunchbase.com - Crunchbase - similar to Angelist

sideproject 13y ago
http://pineapple.io/ http://pineapple.io/ - if you are building something for the design/development community - easy submission
- webvet 13y ago
  Just submitted one here - fairly quick and easy :)
Apane 13y ago
fantastic list, thanks for sharing!
phildini 13y ago
http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur I think your best bet (based on advice from this site and my own experience) is to find the community most relevant to your product and make sure everyone in that community knows you're launching.
- mootothemax 13y ago
  Regarding http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/startups and http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur One word of caution: take the comments on Reddit with a grain of salt. For every decent point, you'll see tonnes of comments like: It costs too much, charge $0.99/month instead! Or I hate it, change x, y, z and make it free and I'll consider it Which can be safely discarded. Definitely don't take any criticism received to heart!
  - silverbax88 13y ago
    Reddit is a great site to hang out on, but most of the people on there - at least from the comments - are college kids with no world or business experience.
  - rfnslyr 13y ago
    Grain of salt? There isn't enough Sodium on this planet I can read Reddit with. Comments are garbage most of the time unless you find some super niche undeveloped subreddit unplagued by the masses, only retaining passionate users. What happens is a community starts with people passionate about the topic of the community, and then the focus shifts from content to community preservation once the masses leak in and it devolves from there. Because it's unmoderated for the most part (subreddit moderators don't count, most are bad at what they do, source: most subreddit content is bad), communities quickly devolve into the lowest common denominator of discussion, memes, bad unfunny overused jokes, and puns (which I really don't mind actually). Sorry, I have a severe distaste for Reddit once I realized how "dumb" it actually is. I realized this when I saw articles posted to Reddit from HN that hit r/all and how different the comments were. Reddit for the most part seems fueled by hormones, HN is level headed.
- rpedela 13y ago
  What about http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ ?
lcasela 13y ago
This is incredibly useful! Also http://www.reddit.com/r/startups http://www.reddit.com/r/startups Edit: Oops. Someone beat me to it.
uladzislau 13y ago
I like your marketing approach - post a list and include your project https://www.sideprojectors.com https://www.sideprojectors.com right in the middle. Wouldn't it be fair to disclose such a thing?
- tokenizer 13y ago
  Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don't use their site. Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.
  - dsowers 13y ago
    Yeah, this isn't reddit. We don't care if people are trying to promote their work on this site. We all have projects that need promotion.
    - dopamean 13y ago
      Also, he hardly even promoted it... "relatively new, easy submission." Pretty tame to me.
      - nulagrithom 13y ago
        I thought it was obvious at first glance he'd be promoting his own site anyway; his username is 'sideproject'. Personally I think it beats Show HN: Sideprojectors, which was his alternative. I saved the list in my notes. Thread was useful to me and good advertising for him. Win-Win.
        tokenizer 13y ago
        Exactly. No need to complain about win-win scenarios that aren't coercive.
        13y ago
quaffapint 13y ago
How do you actually submit to bootstrappist though?
leokun 13y ago
Ugh, I'm not a fan of the idea of a whole bunch of people spamming crunchbase and angel.co with a side project that goes nowhere. It will make crunchbase useless as the dead links and dead projects pile up like so many abandoned github projects. Oh sorry downvoters for quashing your dreams of wealth and fame with your bootstrap styled 10 hour project consisting of largely code copy and pasted from stackoverflow that will revolutionize everything everywhere. Yes please submit that to all the places. We all want to try it out.
- lcasela 13y ago
  That's the right attitude! :3 /s
  - leokun 13y ago
    The right attitude is to not throw shit to the wall and see if it sticks, but to think of an idea and commit to it. With commitment comes the responsibility of doing right by your users, finishing your idea out and not giving up two weeks later. If you aren't prepared for it, if you aren't committed, if you are already nearly burned out from the work you've already put in and have no traction to speak of, well then maybe just leave it alone.
    - redblacktree 13y ago
      Which project/idea have you committed to?
      - leokun 13y ago
        This is an anonymous account so I wont list them, but a couple of them that you probably know of.
        leokun 13y ago
        Yeah I don't like how this statement came across.
chrisjleaf 13y ago
For side projects you should checkout http://www.thinkero.us http://www.thinkero.us, they love seeing new ideas or hearing about issues you see around you that you wish could be fixed. It's more of a community for open innovation and collaboration with less of the pressures than some of the more financially incentivized sites listed above.
Achshar 13y ago
Actually I have my startup featured on crunchbase and a ton of people contact me monthly fro there for all kinds of services to startups. I guess it's both a good and a bad thing.
- unclebucknasty 13y ago
  Nobody's buying and everyone's selling. Kinda like MLM.
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covgjai 13y ago
Few more, http://startups.fm/ http://startups.fm/ http://www.betakit.com/ http://www.betakit.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject http://startupli.st/ http://startupli.st/ http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/ http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/ http://www.inviteshare.com/ http://www.inviteshare.com/ http://projects.metafilter.com/ http://projects.metafilter.com/ http://www.inbound.org/ http://www.inbound.org/ http://firespotting.com/ http://firespotting.com/
kehers 13y ago
showinghn.com needs pagination though.
januaryjin 13y ago
I find that leveraging the most popular which are Social Media and social bookmarking works best. Linkedin generates lots of traffic as well so be sure to create a company page in linkedin. Professionals thrive in Linkedin and it's a good platform for you to get introduced to your target market. We are currently developing a Digital Collaboration Platform that incorporates both file sharing, data capture and social (www.phoenary.com) and we'll be using those sites for the soft launch next month including the sites you've listed. Thanks!

sideproject 13y ago

http://pineapple.io/ http://pineapple.io/ - if you are building something for the design/development community - easy submission

webvet 13y ago
Just submitted one here - fairly quick and easy :)

Apane 13y ago

fantastic list, thanks for sharing!

phildini 13y ago

http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur I think your best bet (based on advice from this site and my own experience) is to find the community most relevant to your product and make sure everyone in that community knows you're launching.

mootothemax 13y ago
Regarding http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/startups and http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur One word of caution: take the comments on Reddit with a grain of salt. For every decent point, you'll see tonnes of comments like: It costs too much, charge $0.99/month instead! Or I hate it, change x, y, z and make it free and I'll consider it Which can be safely discarded. Definitely don't take any criticism received to heart!
- silverbax88 13y ago
  Reddit is a great site to hang out on, but most of the people on there - at least from the comments - are college kids with no world or business experience.
- rfnslyr 13y ago
  Grain of salt? There isn't enough Sodium on this planet I can read Reddit with. Comments are garbage most of the time unless you find some super niche undeveloped subreddit unplagued by the masses, only retaining passionate users. What happens is a community starts with people passionate about the topic of the community, and then the focus shifts from content to community preservation once the masses leak in and it devolves from there. Because it's unmoderated for the most part (subreddit moderators don't count, most are bad at what they do, source: most subreddit content is bad), communities quickly devolve into the lowest common denominator of discussion, memes, bad unfunny overused jokes, and puns (which I really don't mind actually). Sorry, I have a severe distaste for Reddit once I realized how "dumb" it actually is. I realized this when I saw articles posted to Reddit from HN that hit r/all and how different the comments were. Reddit for the most part seems fueled by hormones, HN is level headed.
rpedela 13y ago
What about http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ ?

lcasela 13y ago

This is incredibly useful! Also http://www.reddit.com/r/startups http://www.reddit.com/r/startups Edit: Oops. Someone beat me to it.

uladzislau 13y ago

I like your marketing approach - post a list and include your project https://www.sideprojectors.com https://www.sideprojectors.com right in the middle. Wouldn't it be fair to disclose such a thing?

tokenizer 13y ago
Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don't use their site. Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.
- dsowers 13y ago
  Yeah, this isn't reddit. We don't care if people are trying to promote their work on this site. We all have projects that need promotion.
  - dopamean 13y ago
    Also, he hardly even promoted it... "relatively new, easy submission." Pretty tame to me.
    - nulagrithom 13y ago
      I thought it was obvious at first glance he'd be promoting his own site anyway; his username is 'sideproject'. Personally I think it beats Show HN: Sideprojectors, which was his alternative. I saved the list in my notes. Thread was useful to me and good advertising for him. Win-Win.
      - tokenizer 13y ago
        Exactly. No need to complain about win-win scenarios that aren't coercive.
        13y ago

quaffapint 13y ago

How do you actually submit to bootstrappist though?

leokun 13y ago

Ugh, I'm not a fan of the idea of a whole bunch of people spamming crunchbase and angel.co with a side project that goes nowhere. It will make crunchbase useless as the dead links and dead projects pile up like so many abandoned github projects. Oh sorry downvoters for quashing your dreams of wealth and fame with your bootstrap styled 10 hour project consisting of largely code copy and pasted from stackoverflow that will revolutionize everything everywhere. Yes please submit that to all the places. We all want to try it out.

lcasela 13y ago
That's the right attitude! :3 /s
- leokun 13y ago
  The right attitude is to not throw shit to the wall and see if it sticks, but to think of an idea and commit to it. With commitment comes the responsibility of doing right by your users, finishing your idea out and not giving up two weeks later. If you aren't prepared for it, if you aren't committed, if you are already nearly burned out from the work you've already put in and have no traction to speak of, well then maybe just leave it alone.
  - redblacktree 13y ago
    Which project/idea have you committed to?
    - leokun 13y ago
      This is an anonymous account so I wont list them, but a couple of them that you probably know of.
      - leokun 13y ago
        Yeah I don't like how this statement came across.

chrisjleaf 13y ago

For side projects you should checkout http://www.thinkero.us http://www.thinkero.us, they love seeing new ideas or hearing about issues you see around you that you wish could be fixed. It's more of a community for open innovation and collaboration with less of the pressures than some of the more financially incentivized sites listed above.

Achshar 13y ago

Actually I have my startup featured on crunchbase and a ton of people contact me monthly fro there for all kinds of services to startups. I guess it's both a good and a bad thing.

unclebucknasty 13y ago
Nobody's buying and everyone's selling. Kinda like MLM.

deleted 13y ago

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covgjai 13y ago

Few more, http://startups.fm/ http://startups.fm/ http://www.betakit.com/ http://www.betakit.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject http://startupli.st/ http://startupli.st/ http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/ http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/ http://www.inviteshare.com/ http://www.inviteshare.com/ http://projects.metafilter.com/ http://projects.metafilter.com/ http://www.inbound.org/ http://www.inbound.org/ http://firespotting.com/ http://firespotting.com/

kehers 13y ago

showinghn.com needs pagination though.

januaryjin 13y ago

I find that leveraging the most popular which are Social Media and social bookmarking works best. Linkedin generates lots of traffic as well so be sure to create a company page in linkedin. Professionals thrive in Linkedin and it's a good platform for you to get introduced to your target market. We are currently developing a Digital Collaboration Platform that incorporates both file sharing, data capture and social (www.phoenary.com) and we'll be using those sites for the soft launch next month including the sites you've listed. Thanks!