Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bprajapa » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

dangrossman wrote: post #2

If I still had a flag button, I'd flag this.

I'm not trying to span people. Just showing HN my site and seeing if I get suggestions. If you don't like it, go read another article.

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 8:46 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by greenyoda » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 8:47 PM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #3

dangrossman wrote: post #2

If I still had a flag button, I'd flag this.

Why flag? The title could be better but it isn't really spam.

The same site was submitted to HN two days ago by the same person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638444

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bprajapa » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 9:53 PM UTC

greenyoda wrote: post #13

jtchang wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why flag? The title could be better but it isn't really spam.

The same site was submitted to HN two days ago by the same person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638444

It was at a bad time. Its not like I sent out millions of emails.

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by krapp » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 10:06 PM UTC

bprajapa wrote: post #10

jtchang wrote: post #4

Can you tell us something about the idea and why you think it is different?

I'm basically trying to create another medium for small companies to get traffic for cheap. It's much like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ but I'm allowing companies to post their ad for free. Right now it's fairly simple, it's only the company logo and a link to their website but I will eventually add additional information. I want to first see if this actually works and I get enough companies registering.

I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bprajapa » Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 11:33 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #15

bprajapa wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm basically trying to create another medium for small companies to get traffic for cheap. It's much like http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ but I'm allowing companies to post their ad for free. Right now it's fairly simple, it's only the company logo and a link to their website but I will eventually add additional information. I want to first see if this actually works and I get enough companies registering.

I'm still having a hard time understanding what I, as a company, would actually be getting from this. Is the 'ad' anything beyond the listing on your site? Companies are going to want to host banners that they can push elsewhere, not necessarily to send their customers to your site first.

A company would benefit by getting more traffic to their site if a user clicks on their link. Right now it's very minimal, it doesn't have anything I agree, but I plan on making it so you can upload some type of banner or something. I figured nobody would take the time to create a banner and upload it so that's why I just have their logo and URL, it's easy to enter that basic information for a company. If the site gets enough traffic, the companies at the top of the list would get the most visibility ofcourse.

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bramm » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

I figured, sure why not, I'll post an ad for free. But when it asked for a required address and phone number, I decided not to.

Too early for that kid of trust.

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bprajapa » Mon, Apr 28, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

bramm wrote: post #17

I figured, sure why not, I'll post an ad for free. But when it asked for a required address and phone number, I decided not to. Too early for that kid of trust.

It's not required :) I should remove them entirely. People might get intimidated by all the input fields.

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bluerail » Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 10:01 PM UTC

The advertiser is misspelled in the below page,

http://www.upverge.com/advertisers

If you are an ""advertisor"" interested in being a member of our affiliates program,

So now, are you sure you will get thousands of users?

As a User, why should I come to your site? What's in it for me? You have free ad posting, then there is no way you could guarantee that it would be spam free links and are worth visiting..

As an advertiser, why should I pay you when I get it for free? (to get a top place ??), If the users are not interested why would I be interested in spending advertising in your website..

just a thought..

Re: Show HN: I made this site, I need HN to give it some traction

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Post by bprajapa » Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 6:20 PM UTC

bluerail wrote: post #19

The advertiser is misspelled in the below page, http://www.upverge.com/advertisers If you are an ""advertisor"" interested in being a member of our affiliates program, So now, are you sure you will get thousands of users? As a User, why should I come to your site? What's in it for me? You have free ad posting, then there is no way you could guarantee that it would be spam free links and are worth visiting.. As an adv…

You make very valid points. I don't think I will get thousands of users unless this goes viral. As an advertiser, you would pay to make sure ur ad posting remains at the top because it's ordered by amount.