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Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by Udo »

leokun wrote: post #18
sideproject wrote: post #2

http://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…

Holy crap. I know that HN is all about issuing poisonous put-downs towards people who make things, but seldomly have I been reminded of that with such an artfully distilled piece of bile.

Something is deeply wrong with this community. Not everyone was born with 10 famous startups and 10k Twitter followers under their belt, but things can and do change.

And no, I'm not in favor of spamming indices, either.

Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by nanok »

tokenizer wrote: post #46
nulagrithom wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly. No need to complain about win-win scenarios that aren't coercive.

Agreed, I think it's a great way to market your service - with a list of alternatives included.

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Post by covgjai »

sideproject wrote: post #2

http://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…

Few more,

http://startups.fm/

http://www.betakit.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject

http://startupli.st/

http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/

http://www.inviteshare.com/

http://projects.metafilter.com/

http://www.inbound.org/

http://firespotting.com/

Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by gruseom »

DanielKehoe wrote: post #35

I'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]

I believe "Show HN" is for showing something you've made that other people can try out. In other words, it's for when the thing is ready, not when it's being funded. (Or, pet peeve, for collecting email addresses with a landing page that looks deceptively like a product).

Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by vlokshin »

Have you tried http://www.LaunchSky.com?

19$ to pitch the idea or launch to a crowd of entrepreneurs -- you get stats, feedback, and emails -- and it's rumored that promo codes for free or super cheap submissions are as simple as emailing info@launchsky.com :)

Full disclosure: I'm on of the guys behind LaunchSky, but we've seen a few startups use LaunchSky.com to launch their project and iterate on it, not just get feedback on an idea that doesn't exist yet.

Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by mixmastamyk »

quaffapint wrote: post #19

It'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.

And it is tough to get seen if you've not got a group of friends to upvote it early.

Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by notthatimbias »

acheron wrote: post #29
tokenizer wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

"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", bec…

Just to help you literally understand:

People get this wrong because with many accents (most American regions among them) the "ed" in "biased" is almost silent when spoken aloud at conversational tempo.

Re: Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

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Post by mattjaynes »

DanielKehoe wrote: post #35

I'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]

Please don't hesitate to post links to your own work. You're putting serious effort into providing value to the community. How else will we know about it?

Here's the link:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/909377477/learn-ruby-on-...

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