How to use Reddit to get your first users
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How to use Reddit to get your first users
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Re: How to use Reddit to get your first users
#2So this sums up as - post your ideas in specifically targeted subreddits.
What am I missing that makes this noteworthy?
Re: How to use Reddit to get your first users
#3So this sums up as - post your ideas in specifically targeted subreddits. What am I missing that makes this noteworthy?
You're not missing anything - fairly straight-forward advice.
In their defence, they didn't title the post "The secret on how to use Reddit to get your first users"! But how did it get to the front page?
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#4Isn't this problematic due to the 1:10 self-promotion rule on reddit?
"For every 1 time you post self-promotional content, 9 other posts (submissions or comments) should not contain self-promotional content."
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#5Does anyone else have experience posting on Reddit for marketing purposes that they can share? I haven’t done it myself, but my understanding is that most subreddits frown upon self promotion posts. The article makes it sound like it’s as simple as posting to the right subreddits to get views, but I’m skeptical.
The author also mentions getting 400 visitors as an example of success. 400 visitors is nice, but given that people have reached the top of Hacker News or Product Hunt, gotten massive traffic spikes but then saw little to no conversions, it doesn’t strike me as particularly noteworthy.
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#7Roughly 10 years ago I had a startup idea and had the thought to reach out to "enthusiasts" within the market niche on Reddit and elsewhere. My requests for feedback were met with extreme cynicism, criticism and just outright rudeness. Maybe 5% of the responses were constructive.\
My takeaways: Asking users what they want isn't always useful. Enthusiasts communities can be very negative to new ideas or members.
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#8Reddit has been great for driving traffic to https://vo.codes.
It's a meme site, so it's tolerated. The best thing is that the users have started posting content generated by my site to various subreddits (/r/vocalsynthesis, /r/mediasynthesis, /r/artificial, etc.), which has compounded the traffic we get. It's about 15k uniques a day and growing.
I don't have monetization in place yet, but plan to add a Patreon and eventual subscriptions for streamers wanting to integrate TTS donations into their stream.
I'm going to use RPAN to demo streaming deep fakes and apply it to an improv session. It should be fun and will hopefully drive a lot more traffic.
Re: How to use Reddit to get your first users
#9Isn't this problematic due to the 1:10 self-promotion rule on reddit? "For every 1 time you post self-promotional content, 9 other posts (submissions or comments) should not contain self-promotional content."
That's not a rule, its a guideline from a page that states its "no longer updated".
Re: How to use Reddit to get your first users
#10Reddit is a very particular audience. Big but particular. I’m not always thrilled about the idea of advertising there.