And, if you are on the other side of the fence and shutting it down, please post your site here:
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 m…
Which project/idea have you committed to?
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#33It's funny with ShowHN - I know it can be quite useful, but I'm so paranoid to do it. It's a one time shot (I don't want to spam it over again), and if you don't get any feedback, your shot is lost.
I don't think it's a one time shot, unless you get banned.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://reddit.com/r/startups http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur I think your best bet (based on advice from this site and my own experience) is to find the community most relevant to your product and make sure everyone in that community knows you're launching.
Regarding http://reddit.com/r/startups and http://reddit.com/r/entrepreneur One word of caution: take the comments on Reddit with a grain of salt. For every decent point, you'll see tonnes of comments like: It costs too much, charge $0.99/month instead! Or I hate it, change x, y, z and make it free and I'll consider it Which can be safely discarded. Definitely don't take any criticism received to heart!
Reddit is a great site to hang out on, but most of the people on there - at least from the comments - are college kids with no world or business experience.
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#35I've got a new book project, "Learn Ruby on Rails" that I'm launching with a Kickstarter campaign (the book is nearly complete).
Should I post it as "Show HN" or just submit the link?
[edit: removed the link because I don't want to be spammy]
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#36http://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…
http://pineapple.io/ - if you are building something for the design/development community - easy submission
Just submitted one here - fairly quick and easy :)
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#37http://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…
For side projects you should checkout http://www.thinkero.us, they love seeing new ideas or hearing about issues you see around you that you wish could be fixed. It's more of a community for open innovation and collaboration with less of the pressures than some of the more financially incentivized sites listed above.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 m…
Which project/idea have you committed to?
This is an anonymous account so I wont list them, but a couple of them that you probably know of.
Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
#39How about Designer News? http://news.layervault.com
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I thought it was obvious at first glance he'd be promoting his own site anyway; his username is 'sideproject'.
Personally I think it beats Show HN: Sideprojectors, which was his alternative. I saved the list in my notes. Thread was useful to me and good advertising for him. Win-Win.