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Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?

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By the way, if anyone is interested in a nice, but small and very focused (NO POLITICS) forum for those of us working on bootstrapped companies, I've been enjoying this one, so far: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/ For LiberWriter, I've found that the right forums can drive a lot of traffic. Any old traffic is useless - I've got the site up on the front page of HN before, with 0 conversions. HN readers are not our tar…

Wouldn't the front page of HN would be more about the readers sharing / promoting the site than direct conversions? Maybe coders don't tweet as much as I thought.

Re: Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?

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My side project is a specialty, niche application for speech pathology and audiology courses at major universities. So, traffic is driven by word-of-mouth (all the people in charge of these programs form a community, go to conferences, etc). And then the people involved in the courses are required to use this app. It tracks their progress towards course completion.

Edit: And yeah, it made me, personally, > 1000/month last year. That's after my X% cut of gross. There are < 10 people involved.

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