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Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by shubhamjain »

ProTip: Since these forums are predominately internet-savvy, you're likely to hit more people who are testing the waters rather than trying something that solves their problem. Just don't forget to add "pay me" button. It would sound risky but it's worth it. There is nothing worse than building something that no one is willing to pay for. Trimming down early makes sure that you're building a solution that genuinely solves a problem.

At the nascent stages, you don't need to add numbers, only people who are delighted to use your product and are willing to pay for it.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by mdekkers »

cshenton wrote: post #20
welanes wrote: post #14

Quora is probably one of the better resources on that list because rather that listing your product on the shelf next to 1000 others, it allows you to discover people looking for solutions just like yours. For example, say you're building an Android weather widget (for some reason). Build a profile where you're an 'Android', 'Widget', 'Weather' expert and Quora will surface this question for you to answer* : https://…

Totally disagree from the user's perspective. Every time I try and use Quora for technical reasons, the answers are almost always people selling their product and not offering a constructive solution to the problem asked. Sure, if the problem is unsolved then it is appropriate. But more often than not, this kind of advertising drowns out actually useful answers. Not least because their 'walk the dinosaur' narrative c…

'walk the dinosaur' narrative

Never heard this term before, what does it mean?

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by atrus »

mdekkers wrote: post #22
cshenton wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally disagree from the user's perspective. Every time I try and use Quora for technical reasons, the answers are almost always people selling their product and not offering a constructive solution to the problem asked. Sure, if the problem is unsolved then it is appropriate. But more often than not, this kind of advertising drowns out actually useful answers. Not least because their 'walk the dinosaur' narrative c…

'walk the dinosaur' narrative Never heard this term before, what does it mean?

Telling an unrelated story with the same 'punchline' at the end.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/everybody-walk-the-dinosaur

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by eps »

radley wrote: post #11
toni wrote: post #5

Who would benefit from posting their product to 125 websites except spammers and growth hackers?

a) I'm releasing a Mac app for casual DJs. Mac sites are probably underviewed by my demographic and I only have a few DJ sites I can directly target. b) I don't have to promote to all 125 sites, I can be more targeted. c) You're automatically treating growth hacking as spam. Growth Hacking is a common promotion process - the issue is how it is accomplished. Promoting on lists - good. Making fake websites with fake ar…

Spamming is an integral part of growth hacking. As is the contact info acraping and harvesting. Pinning a cool name on these activities doesn't make them any more acceptable.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by ci5er »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #18
minimaxir wrote: post #4

Since this is on front page, here's a little rant about spamming sites with your product: Don't . Yes, discoverability is broken. But that doesn't justify spamming, or other "growth hacking" that the Product Hunt culture has made socially acceptable (in fact, there has been a rise in clever voting manipulation tactics on Hacker News because such tactics have been normalized on PH: https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/stat…

if you look at most product startup they all have started with shady growth tactics (stealing contacts or propagating trought fake invites to your contacts or pretending you to be on a network to lure your friends) of course once they did it they where quick to plug the hole and denounce it as unhetical spamming of course isn't a cost effective solution to reach people needing a product, but social network propagatio…

> look at most product startup they all have started

Now, maybe, I don't know what you mean by "product startup", or even the word "most", but having burned a fair amount of shoe leather in my time, and having been associated with startups that have done nigh on a billion (USD) in sales by talking to customers, in their shops, and showing them goods, and signing contracts for delivery and SLAs, I surely would like you to back up this assertion.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by mdekkers »

atrus wrote: post #24
mdekkers wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

'walk the dinosaur' narrative Never heard this term before, what does it mean?

Telling an unrelated story with the same 'punchline' at the end. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/everybody-walk-the-dinosaur

Thanks!!

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by mdekkers »

LoSboccacc wrote: post #19
metalmanac wrote: post #16

How many of those will actually bring in meaningful traffic? It would be nice to see a list from people who have successfully launched a product on multiple platforms and have traffic numbers to backup their suggestions.

https://sumo.com/stories/0-10k-nat-eliason?src=facebook-stor... I found this fascinating. shows the hard work needed to capture a real audience, as opposed to paid eyeballs.

Although blocked by all my spam filters, this was unexpectedly useful. Thanks for posting.
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