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Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by gus_massa » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 1:28 PM UTC

canterburry wrote: post #9

philbarr wrote: post #3

Whilst this is pretty handy, I balked at the "let us submit for you for $89". Like - eek! Really?! Also - the "get the pdf version" is really a dark pattern since you're not allowed to download it without first paying some non-zero amount that you laughably get to choose. Might be a bit nicer to say, "buy the pdf version".

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.

Just to be clear, something like this will 99% get marked as a spammer and probably blocked or downvoted in HN.

Also, I HN it's very useful that the owner/submitter can answer the questions that appear in the comments of the post. The problem with mass submission / spam is that the owner can't mass answer all the comments in all the sites.

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by SamUK96 » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 1:37 PM UTC

rainbowmverse wrote: post #40

SamUK96 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

obligatory HN comment about selling shovels in a gold rush No but this is such a pattern in human history. Don't fight war, sell the weapons. Don't mine bitcoin, sell the cards. Don't start a startup, start a meta-startup (startup about startups). Easy $$$! Basically be the parasitic side-liner supplying to the often-fruitless follies of mankind.

It's not too bad as long as you're making something genuinely good. I'm not likely to ever make it big as a musician, but that doesn't mean Ableton or the company behind Reaper are being shady by selling me software.

Of course, I was talking about being suppliers to rushes/"fads", i.e. the industries/sectors that appear out of nowhere for fordubious reasons and with ill-thought, i.e. wars, cali gold rush, 2002 internet companies, bitcoin, MOOCs, Javascript frameworks. All these are bandwagons that arose and quickly develop/devoloped to have many suppliers that exploit the confusion and hysteria.

Take a look at GPU company stock prices over the past 2-3 years for me will ye' ;)

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by csallen » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 1:44 PM UTC

fuball63 wrote: post #29

eruci wrote: post #28

I'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.

It makes sense. Selling to other businesses (as opposed to consumers) is arguably the most reasonable market to go after. And if you have a very early-stage product, you'll be looking for early adopters and visionaries who are capable of and willing to take a risk on unproven technology to get a leg up.

It should be similarly unsurprising that companies like Apple, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Stripe, Salesforce, Google, SAP, Amazon, etc. could also be described as "selling stuff to other people selling stuff to them."

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by jaequery » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 1:59 PM UTC

wasnt there a startup that submits your site to all these directories for you for a price?

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by egfx » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 2:46 PM UTC

SamUK96 wrote: post #31

eruci wrote: post #28

I'm amazed at the number of startups about startups.

obligatory HN comment about selling shovels in a gold rush No but this is such a pattern in human history. Don't fight war, sell the weapons. Don't mine bitcoin, sell the cards. Don't start a startup, start a meta-startup (startup about startups). Easy $$$! Basically be the parasitic side-liner supplying to the often-fruitless follies of mankind.

So basically be Gary V.

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by elliottwilliams » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 2:50 PM UTC

What would be more interesting to me would be a list of places/social media that my customers frequently visit, and then grab my company name on those sites. Plenty of times I've asked customer how they've heard about me, and then I race to that platform only to find out there are no good names related to my product left.

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by p0nce » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

mkirklions wrote: post #39

pmiri wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm always wary of startup founders sharing startup launches to each other. Big red flag. Completely skews all advice/critique/reception.

Yep, I posted my website asking for critique, half the users were complaining about my 4s load time and didnt mention a thing about the information presented. Thousands of people use my website a week, apparently they dont care about 4s load times. My actual audience has bothered me to create more content more frequently.

Only on HN I heard that my products were ugly. None of thousands of users ever reported that.

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by goatherders » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 3:44 PM UTC

rainbowmverse wrote: post #38

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great deal. Until you get a Google Penguin penalty and have to spend $10k+ in employee time getting it corrected, disowning backlinks and so on.

Some types of company see penalties (or cleanup cost) as a cost of doing business. If they make > $10k to incur $10k in costs, then it works out. It's a faulty way of seeing things, but businesses like that tend to have a fog around them. They don't see the icebergs coming.

Why is it faulty?

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by goatherders » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 3:45 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #34

goatherders wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You didn't submit the link though. When a journalist does a quick search of their email to see what correspondence there's been before they won't see you. They'll see Eggradients, and whatever Eggradients put in that initial submission. That might be something great. Equally it might be terrible. Imagine if it said "Eggradients client ACME STARTUP is really good. Please contact Eggradients if you would like to know m…

And that would be different from a standard PR company submitting me...how?

Re: Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup

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Post by gnicholas » Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 4:03 PM UTC

What's the point of "submitting" to f6s? I only ever use them when I'm entering into a startup competition run through their site. I never thought of them as a place to submit startups other than this.

Seeing a site like this on the list makes me question the usefulness of other sites that I've not heard of.

edit: Also, some of the FB groups are either completely inactive (last post was months ago) or are satire (one sentence startup pitches).