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Ask HN: How should we promote our web-based startup for as-free-as-possible.
Folks, We need your help with suggestions/feedback on how to spread word about our project. We are one month old startup based out of Bangalore and have a team of 4 people spread across India.
Thanks,
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- javery 17y agoA link or description of your startup would be a good first step. :)
- Chirag 17y agoWell Thanks, @javery Site Url http://www.indiameme.com/ http://www.indiameme.com/ Short Description: As a bloggers we are all passionate about the news and daily on goings in India, it is really hard to catch up with the best stuff in news and blog. I also faced simillar problem a while ago and decided to wrote a program to grab the best of stories around India and show it on easy to read simple page.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoKinda like http://google.in/news http://google.in/news then or http://google.in/news/section?topic=n http://google.in/news/section?topic=n ?
- maurycy 17y agoSorry to say but personalized home pages and RSS mashups are like five years ago. Competing in this sector takes much more.
- Chirag 17y ago@maurcy Thanks, this technology behind the site which is as rightly pointed out is rss mashup is not the core strength. The main USP, if you will of the site is the sources it polls and the editorial team.
- pclark 17y agowhy is your site so hard to find the news? when I go to your homepage I see no news.
- patio11 17y agoFirst, your project needs to solve a problem for an identifiable group of people. Then, you build a relationship with the people that group of people trusts (e.g. by blogging, commenting on their blogs, etc). Then, you introduce your thing as something which will help their readers/colleagues/etc solve your problem. That is the general gist of it. Your bigger problem: what identifiable group of people has a hole in their life shaped just like a news aggregator/mashup machine? Edited to add: It is almost never, ever, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeever in your interest to allow yourself to appear poor and desperate, much less to make a point about it. "We are in desperate need of PR person (who can work for free :) )" is the first thing I see on your home page. That tells me you're poor, desperate, and unprofessional. "Indiameme is seeking forward-thinking PR professionals" is a much, much better way to phrase it. (Forward-thinking, in this case, means willing to work for an unconventional arrangement in which they do your PR and you help them surface their stories. Word to the wise: no sane PR flack will go for this. However, having the offer on your front page won't hurt you.