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Ask HN: How to reach out to hackers and CS students in India and Brazil?
Building a new product for hackers & CS students and need beta testers.
We got some US users. However, we also want to see how users from other large non-US hacker communities, such as India and Brazil, interact with the product.
Any idea or info about online communities, forums, Facebook groups etc will help.
Thank you!
- rajdroid 11y agoI think HN is good but everybody doesn't use it at least in North India.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- maha_funk 11y agoSites like this work fine. Also a post to /r/programming or /r/India /r/Brazil would work. Btw, what is your product ?
- bra-ket 11y agoelance, freelancer etc. hire them as beta testers.
- lnk2w 11y agoYou can try to reach the usergroups we have here. Like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ruby-sp https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ruby-sp is the official group of Ruby Developers in São Paulo. You can also look for public universities, here in Brazil they have the best courses of CS and IT related in the country.
- arkj 11y agoyou can ask here on this HN clone <http://hackerstreet.in> http://hackerstreet.in> too
- pramodliv1 11y agoQuora is popular among Indian CS students.
- tzgur8 11y agoThanks! That sounds good, but what should I ask besides putting the site and pitch it?
- amjd 11y agoReddit is a good place as already suggested by someone. Also, I'm an Indian CS student. PM me if I can help.
- vishalzone2002 11y agohow and where did you get your US users? I wonder why would that channel not work for other hacker/cs people. programmer is a community of its own powered by internet so i would guess they would all use the same channel?. like stack overflow, etc.
- nphyte 11y agolook up universities that offer cs there , and then find fb groups of those universities using fb graph search
- starlord 11y agoOne good way to start would be to add the url/details in this post as well. Next, as suggested in other comments Reddit is nice, then Quora is also big hangout for many of your target audience (at least in India). Would probably need more details on the product to suggest anything more specific. If you are willing to spend some money, make a fb page and get some fb ads with product details, beta tester incentives and target to specific universities/colleges/companies perhaps...
- rapphil 11y agoYou could look for top universities in Brazil and India in google, and then look for Facebook and Linkedin communities among those universities. After that you can post a message in those communities looking for beta testers.
- akshat_h 11y agoPost the link here as well. Some students from India/Brazil and other countries would be reading hackernews as well and can spread the word. As others have suggested, try posting in reddit groups as well.
- nautical 11y agoIndian Myself : HN , Product Hunt , Quora are 3 imp places . hasjob.co is another platform check out if it fits your need .
- motyar 11y agoWhy dont just ask them here.. Many of them are on HN.