Hello HNers,
I do not have any profile on any social media sites, meaning no followers. I am working on a web app. How can I promote my web app?
Ask HN: How you promote your web apps?
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Re: Ask HN: How you promote your web apps?
#2Pay them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19630181).
Other reasonable suggestions include: - Post on producthunt - Post on reddit - Google Ads - Facebook page - Cold-emails - Word of mouth - Business cards - Scour the internet for forums related to your web apps
The best success I've had has come from winning the HN lottery, I got on the front page. Otherwise paying people was 2nd. I don't have a 3rd option that has worked well enough yet.
Re: Ask HN: How you promote your web apps?
#3Also try Show HN, if not for the views, it might get picked up by someone else.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a channel, most subreddits consider it spam, producthunt is cliquish, facebook and google cost money, and google search does not pick up unpopular stuff since years ago.
I wonder if we should revive the concept of webrings. Anyone has any ideas ?
Re: Ask HN: How you promote your web apps?
#4Someone shared this in IndieHacker recently https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
Re: Ask HN: How you promote your web apps?
#5Also try Show HN, if not for the views, it might get picked up by someone else. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a channel, most subreddits consider it spam, producthunt is cliquish, facebook and google cost money, and google search does not pick up unpopular stuff since years ago. I wonder if we should revive the concept of webrings. Anyone has any ideas ?
The space for small apps like spreadsheet2website, community website, CRM, ERP to name a few are all niches with existing major competitor. Maybe the time of low hanging fruits has passed and it is time to make the brain work.
There might be room for small innovations but without network, like OP, I doubt it will work.