How to use Reddit to get your first users

Post by buro9 » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 8:02 PM UTC

robbyking wrote: post #78

buro9 wrote: post #16

Reddit is a forum and to a forum of enthusiasts it is a personal space. It's more akin to a bar in which they all meet and hang out. It's possible to research via a bar, just get to know people first and they'll embrace and support whatever you're working on. But to those who wish to just walk into a bar and start trying to perform market research or sales... yeah, know that it comes across as an invasion of personal…

I love this analogy! I'm a moderator of r/mtb, and creators have gone as far as to ask me why people aren't interacting with their content. I usually send a short reply about how the community responds to certain types of content, but your post does a good job of explaining why . I think I'm going to borrow your bar analogy next time I have to warn a fledgling YouTuber about spamming.

Post by VectorLock » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

random_visitor wrote: post #17

The article can be summarised to: "Use the subreddit where your target audience hangs out" Nothing wrong with the advice, but most subreddits have a no self-promotion policy (and reddit has a "no promotion over 10% of account activity" policy). There are things like self promotion threads but its only visited by people looking to promote their products and not by other people. Users who don't cease the promotion on b…

Post by fakedang » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 8:43 PM UTC

im3w1l wrote: post #43

random_visitor wrote: post #17

The article can be summarised to: "Use the subreddit where your target audience hangs out" Nothing wrong with the advice, but most subreddits have a no self-promotion policy (and reddit has a "no promotion over 10% of account activity" policy). There are things like self promotion threads but its only visited by people looking to promote their products and not by other people. Users who don't cease the promotion on b…

I think people are cool with self promotion if you do it in a tasteful manner. They may not even think of it as self promotion. People resent stuff like: "Special offer just today buy 2 pens and get 11% off!!" But they do like stuff like: "How we designed the Fountilator"

Post by dbbljack » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 8:54 PM UTC

davio wrote: post #23

My colleague posted a socially awkward penguin meme ridiculing his failure as a mobile game developer. The post itself was funny and relatable, but didn't have any self-promotion. People asked about the game in the comments and he got his biggest download day as a result.

Post by borja_froged » Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 9:09 PM UTC

chungus_khan wrote: post #91

borja_froged wrote: post #56

I think reddit is a gold mine if you genuinely want to help others. In other words, promoting your product should be the consequence not the goal.

If your product is something the users will genuinely want and find very useful, and you present it as a member of the community who decided to make it for the community's benefit, people will be thrilled generally. If you show up as an outsider, or with a product that either isn't useful or isn't unique/new you will be seen as the shill that you are.