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It looks like “$0” as an amount works to get the PDF.
not when I try it it doesn't
As in type in “0” not leave it empty.
Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
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#22Why do you think that my _particular_ audience frequents either of these directories? Entrepreneurs should go after their customers, first and foremost. Submitting to irrelevant directories is not only lost time. It's dangerous because it suggests that we are doing something useful and that we don't have to chase the real audience anymore.
I'm always wary of startup founders sharing startup launches to each other. Big red flag. Completely skews all advice/critique/reception.
Except when we're the target market.
Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
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Interesting, I actually found the $89 a bargain given how long it will take to just create accounts on all these services before I can submit anything. That alone will take hours. My worry is just that this service will quickly get marked as a spammer and probably blocked or downvoted as a poster in many places.
Agreed. $89 is basically 89 cents per submission. My time is worth a lot more than that. I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice.
I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice.
You should be very wary about doing that. Some of the link in the list are news sites (eg Mashable). If someone at a news site sees you're spamming them they'll be a lot less likely to cover your startup favourably in the future. While you might get some 'backlink juice' out of it, you could also be burning some very valuable bridges.
Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. $89 is basically 89 cents per submission. My time is worth a lot more than that. I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice.
I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice. You should be very wary about doing that. Some of the link in the list are news sites (eg Mashable). If someone at a news site sees you're spamming them they'll be a lot less likely to cover your startup favourably in the future. While you might get some 'backlink juice' out of it, you could also be burning some very valuable bri…
I don't think the chance is high that someone is going to NOT cover my company because they remember that some months prior I submitted a link to their site.
Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, I actually found the $89 a bargain given how long it will take to just create accounts on all these services before I can submit anything. That alone will take hours. My worry is just that this service will quickly get marked as a spammer and probably blocked or downvoted as a poster in many places.
Agreed. $89 is basically 89 cents per submission. My time is worth a lot more than that. I would be glad to pay for this service (and probably will) just for the backlink juice.
Not all backlinks are rated equally just FYI, same with reddit as well, if you linkspam it neither reddit nor its users like that and might be received poorly.
Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
#26This is neat! To all of the naysayers - submitting to messageboards is a perfectly fine way to get the word out about a product! Plus, I'd expect it to help with its googlability. There's no question that it is better to talk to actual customers, but where do you even find these people? How do you get them to talk to you? How about message boards with communities of different people looking to try out new ideas as a…
If you don't know how to reach your market you have already failed.
Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
#27How is this SEO spam on the front page?
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#28I'm amazed at the number of startups about startups.
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#29I'm amazed at the number of startups about startups.
This is what gets me about Indie Hackers. So much of it is people selling stuff to other people selling stuff to them.
Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
#30How is this SEO spam on the front page?
I like how SEO articles like this one are trying so desperately to not seem like SEO scumlording anymore due to everybody realising over the past few years that it's mainly a very grimy/scummy industry full of fraud and grubbers. Go look at the google trend for "SEO" [1] (isn't very statistically rigorous, but y'know...).
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=s...