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Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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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.

yeah they do sell seo :P

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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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…

Totally agree. I have an app and I tried doing this in Quora a couple of times. I have stopped doing this. The only way you can win in quora is to answer questions that are related to your product with a simple bio against your name.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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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…

Getting exposure helps. How it's done is a different question. Posting your startup to directories/curated collections or blog is perfectly fine. Spam begins when it's unsolicited.
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