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Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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Honest question: how do you post on Reddit without getting bashed for self-promotion in the subreddit which people would probably like the product/thing?

You post those giant threads that get 600+ upvotes in niche webdev/cs communities and you tuck in a link to your thing amongst many others, making it virtually impossible to detect as promotion.

Got an example? Can't visualize it.

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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https://www.heymeta.com/sponsor/ returns a 404 currently... is that expected?

It shouldn't and doesn't for me at the moment. Is this still the case on your side?

well, I see a flash of a normal page and then it goes to 404

I'm using Chrome, with only uBlock Origin Lite but disabling it ~shows no change~ appears to allow it to work.

Looking at the requests with uBOL disabled, app.68194690.js and 5.5caaec0f.js both returned 404, everything else returned 200/202.

and with uBOL enabled https://plausible.hey.si/js/script.hash.outbound-links.js shows as blocked. maybe that's the issue?

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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I also run a small B2C company ( https://pastmaps.com ). Here's what worked for me: First 1000 users: daily manually done reddit posts. Very time-consuming and annoying, but it gets the job done. Just make sure the content drives users back to the site and is actually relevant, interesting, and valuable Next 100K users: programmatic long-tail SEO. obviously this is unique to my own product, but I realized that people…

> daily manually done reddit posts Can you link to an example?

Not OP, but this worked out well for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1f8159z/the_allegatio...

Re: Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

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> Wait... not having spelling errors is now a mark of AI? When you output long blog articles more than daily, it is. Proofreading takes time, and someone who cares enough to proofread will probably care enough to put in more time on other things that an LLM wouldn't care about (like information density, as noted in another comment; or editing after the fact to improve the overall structure; or injecting idiosyncratic…

Please take no offense—I genuinely want to understand. I agree that my blog needs work, especially with less fluff and more value—i'm working on that. I guess where I’m coming from is this: why is it assumed that using tools like AI or Grammarly takes away from the creative process? For me, they speed up the mechanical side of things—grammar, flow, even structure—so I can spend more time on ideas, storytelling, infor…

Even if it’s you pulling the strings, it feels the way it is: a robot talking. It feels fake. Because it is. You’re not unique, so you’ll never stand out either. Just learn grammar on your own, and you’ll retain/add character to the text.

Now you’re just prompting. Just post the prompt, that’d be way more fun to read.

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