Is this list focuses on "commercial projects"?
I would like also to know websites to promote your open-source initiative (like openhatch.org)
Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
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Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don't use their site. Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.
Yeah, this isn't reddit. We don't care if people are trying to promote their work on this site. We all have projects that need promotion.
Also, he hardly even promoted it... "relatively new, easy submission." Pretty tame to me.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#23http://news.ycombinator.com - (duh), post with Show HN, easy submission, will get listed on http://showinghn.com/ and http://hnshowcase.com as well. http://betali.st - quite well known, moderated, gets a decent amount of traffic if you get featured, not too many form fields to fill out. http://www.kickoffboost.com - moderated, and relatively new, easy submission http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject - moderated, easy s…
Ugh, I'm not a fan of the idea of a whole bunch of people spamming crunchbase and angel.co with a side project that goes nowhere. It will make crunchbase useless as the dead links and dead projects pile up like so many abandoned github projects. Oh sorry downvoters for quashing your dreams of wealth and fame with your bootstrap styled 10 hour project consisting of largely code copy and pasted from stackoverflow that…
That's the right attitude! :3
/s
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#24If it's any kind of audio/music/instrument project, you can post it to one of the groups on:
http://www.reddit.com/user/diydsp/m/digi_instruments
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#25Better advice would be better to find out where your customers are and go there. So, yeah, go ahead and post to HN but only if your target market is actually on HN otherwise you'll get a lot of tyre-kickers and no actual customers. Addendum: if you don't know how to reach your customers. Stop what you're doing and find out
Indeed. I wonder how many people actually read these websites where lots of people spam a link to their new "startup" and where the content is nothing else than just a collection of links. I think the answer is: no one.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ugh, I'm not a fan of the idea of a whole bunch of people spamming crunchbase and angel.co with a side project that goes nowhere. It will make crunchbase useless as the dead links and dead projects pile up like so many abandoned github projects. Oh sorry downvoters for quashing your dreams of wealth and fame with your bootstrap styled 10 hour project consisting of largely code copy and pasted from stackoverflow that…
That's the right attitude! :3 /s
The right attitude is to not throw shit to the wall and see if it sticks, but to think of an idea and commit to it. With commitment comes the responsibility of doing right by your users, finishing your idea out and not giving up two weeks later. If you aren't prepared for it, if you aren't committed, if you are already nearly burned out from the work you've already put in and have no traction to speak of, well then maybe just leave it alone.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#27www.startuptabs.com. They have a chrome extension where their users see a random startup site every time a new tab is opened up.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#28http://news.ycombinator.com - (duh), post with Show HN, easy submission, will get listed on http://showinghn.com/ and http://hnshowcase.com as well. http://betali.st - quite well known, moderated, gets a decent amount of traffic if you get featured, not too many form fields to fill out. http://www.kickoffboost.com - moderated, and relatively new, easy submission http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject - moderated, easy s…
Ugh, I'm not a fan of the idea of a whole bunch of people spamming crunchbase and angel.co with a side project that goes nowhere. It will make crunchbase useless as the dead links and dead projects pile up like so many abandoned github projects. Oh sorry downvoters for quashing your dreams of wealth and fame with your bootstrap styled 10 hour project consisting of largely code copy and pasted from stackoverflow that…
This is brutal, but very true. Now, according HN etiquette, this comment should be downvoted to infinity for supporting you, too.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like your marketing approach - post a list and include your project https://www.sideprojectors.com right in the middle. Wouldn't it be fair to disclose such a thing?
Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don't use their site. Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.
"biased". The word you want is "non-biased".
I literally* don't understand how people mess this up. If you were talking about a list of projects that had not yet been submitted to one of those lists, would you say they are "non-submit"? No, obviously you would say "non-submitted". If you were talking about books that had been printed by a publisher, would you say they are "publish"? No, you would say "published", because it's a past participle, and that is how we say past participles in English. This is not a prescriptive/descriptive thing: every English speaker over the age of 5 talks this way. But for some reason "bias", a completely normal verb, causes people to throw out everything they know about English.
So, stop it.
/rant
* Yes, literally.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#30While these sources are great, this is not a good approach to getting traction. The type of attention you'll capture won't be of high quality, unless of course these outlets cater to your target market.
Like others have said, you're better off focusing your time and energy finding out where your prospects go for their information and entertainment. TC and the like will give you a big surge in traffic initially, but it won't be the traffic you want, and it'll die off quickly.
Now, a truly great resource for those launching side projects would be a list of sites/magazines broken down my major target market -- eg. pregnant mothers, hackers, foodies, athletes, etc.