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Ask HN: OK, I've started-up, now how do I continue-up?

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Re: Ask HN: OK, I've started-up, now how do I continue-up?

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Post by dchuk »

spend some time getting a fresh design on that site, and show off much more of the social activity on it. Make it look REALLY busy and active, so new users will want to jump in and participate.

Then I'd recommend some forum marketing personally, go get active on a few major gaming forums and use a signature link to your site. Forum marketing is very underrated but can be very lucrative if done actively. Plus you get to participate in forums you're already interested in (hopefully) so it barely feels like work

Re: Ask HN: OK, I've started-up, now how do I continue-up?

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Post by luvcraft »

olegious wrote: post #8
luvcraft wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

here you go! http://reccr.com I refrained from posting a link of mentioning the service by name in the original post, because I didn't want it to look like a "stealth ad". But maybe all the crap about not promoting your own services in forums has just made me over-cautious. :)

Looking at your site (static/welcome), some more thoughts: 1. where's the FB "Like" button? I see the Google +1 prominently displayed, but no Like button. Make it as easy as possible for people to share your site. 2. in my opinion there is too much text on the main page. You can remove the majority of the text and replace it with a stronger sign up call to action as well as some elements that demonstrate community ac…

OK, I've applied #1 and also cleaned up the welcome page quite a bit. Let me know what you think!

The "what's going on now" stuff will require a little more work, and a lot more thought because I've been consciously designing the site to let users be as private as they want to be, which has had the unintended side effect of making it hard for some users to be as public as they want to be.

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