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Re: Ask HN: I'm an unknown indie developer. How can I promote my web app?

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Post by veb » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 10:19 PM UTC

I really like this. I'm actually using it now. Could you not join Facebook Groups and start 'talking' about your website? For example, join some music lovin' group and mention it... or even get in touch with the owners/admins and ask to "affiliate".

Those are just random thoughts, I'm in the same boat as you. :) Good luck!

EDIT: Signed up and everything, but I like to listen to other peoples playlists, however if I'm signed in, I can't find any, because it redirects me to /me and that feature is on the main page ...

Re: Ask HN: I'm an unknown indie developer. How can I promote my web app?

#12

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

veb wrote: post #11

I really like this. I'm actually using it now. Could you not join Facebook Groups and start 'talking' about your website? For example, join some music lovin' group and mention it... or even get in touch with the owners/admins and ask to "affiliate". Those are just random thoughts, I'm in the same boat as you. :) Good luck! EDIT: Signed up and everything, but I like to listen to other peoples playlists, however if I'm…

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Re: Ask HN: I'm an unknown indie developer. How can I promote my web app?

#13

Post by cleer » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 5:49 AM UTC

Thanks, everyone, for the great, useful feedback. I'm taking all of it into consideration. :) Much appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: I'm an unknown indie developer. How can I promote my web app?

#14

Post by cleer » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 10:36 AM UTC

hardik988 wrote: post #9

Breaking off on a tangent here, but for some reason, I cannot get any of the features on the website to work. The added songs don't play (No Song Found), the change URL function breaks the site. When I click on the URL below Share your Playlist, a new tab opens up with a new playlist URL. (I'm on Chrome 8/Ubuntu Maverick) Design-wise, I would probably not black out the album cover to show the name of the album/artist…

I've stupidly been doing all my dev and testing in Chrome OS X. I tried out Firefox OS X today and located several bugs that were preventing main functionality from working; they're now fixed. Maybe that applies to cross-OS Chrome somehow? (I got other reports about things being broken on Chrome Windows.) If you get the time, I'd be thankful if you could try it out again and let me know if anything's fixed. I haven't figured out the change URL/share URL bugs yet, though.