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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 bdcravens »

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…

As long as we're being pedantic, in most cases, you'd use "unbiased", not "non-biased".

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

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Post by leokun »

leokun wrote: post #38
redblacktree wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah I don't like how this statement came across.

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

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Post by nattaggart »

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…

Not sure if I agree with the second paragraph of this. But the original comment has a point.

CrunchBase and AngelList are meant to be directories of companies. While side projects often turn into companies, there is a difference at least initially. Uploading a weekend side project to these sites is creating noise rather than signal.

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

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Post by tvladeck »

nattaggart wrote: post #65
leokun wrote: post #18

Earlier 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…

Not sure if I agree with the second paragraph of this. But the original comment has a point. CrunchBase and AngelList are meant to be directories of companies. While side projects often turn into companies, there is a difference at least initially. Uploading a weekend side project to these sites is creating noise rather than signal.

It's the job of CrunchBase and AngelList to separate the wheat from the chaff.

There's nothing wrong with hoping a side project becomes a bigger thing, and using available tools to try to make that a reality. Some side projects do go on to be very successful. Like AngelList.

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

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Post by vuzum »

We're launching Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) tomorrow, after 10 months of work.

We submitted the project to the following websites:

1. CrunchBase http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blogvio

2. Angel List https://www.angel.co/blogvio

3. http://www.betali.st/ 39$ - http://betali.st/startups/blogvio

4. http://www.romanianstartups.com/

5. http://www.startupli.st/

6. http://www.kickoffboost.com/

7. http://www.geekopedia.me/startupsubmit/

8. http://www.killerstartups.com/

9. http://www.startupbird.com/

10. http://www.ratemystartup.com/

11. http://www.new-startups.com/

12. http://www.nextbigwhat.com/

13. http://www.leanstack.io/

14. http://www.launchingnext.com/

15. http://www.startupproject.org/

16. http://www.erlibird.com/ - they ask 199$.

17. http://www.thestartuppitch.com/

18. http://www.startuplift.com/

19. http://www.feedmyapp.com/submit/ (http://feedmyapp.com/p/a/blogvio/28928)

20. http://www.siliconallee.com/contact

21. http://www.f6s.com/

22. http://www.paggu.com/

23. http://www.aboutyourstartup.com/ (http://aboutyourstartup.com/?s=blogvio)

24. http://www.eu-startups.com/directory/

25. http://www.go2web20.net/

26. http://www.101bestwebsites.com/

27. http://www.vator.tv/

28. http://www.springwise.com/

29. http://www.techpluto.com

30. http://www.cee-startups.com/

31. http://www.appuseful.com/

32. http://www.startupwizz.com/

33. http://www.startuptunes.com/ - http://directory.startuptunes.com/b/Blogvio

34. http://www.venturebeatprofiles.com/

35. http://www.techhunger.com/

36. https://www.gust.com - https://gust.com/c/blogvio

37. http://www.cee-startups.com/

We plan to submit it here as well:

38. http://www.startupbook.co

39. http://www.launch.it/contact_form/1/0/contact

40. http://www.netted.net/contact-us/

41. http://www.minisprout.com/about/

42. http://www.makeuseof.com/contact-team/

43. http://www.venturevillage.eu/about-us/contact/

44. http://www.appvita.com/

45. http://www.webdevtwopointzero.com/

46. http://www.dzineblog.com/

47. http://www.rev2.org/

48. http://www.techattitude.com/contact

49. http://www.eastist.com/

50. http://www.siliconallee.com/

51. http://www.en.startit.rs/

52. http://www.en.startupbusiness.it/

53. http://www.blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/

54. http://www.rudebaguette.com/

55. http://www.venturevillage.eu/

56. http://www.en.webrazzi.com/about/

57. http://www.sociableblog.com/contact-us/

Be warned, we still think press plays a major role as a distribution channel, compared to these sites that will only bring you beta users, in the hundreds. :)

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

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Post by uladzislau »

vuzum wrote: post #68

We're launching Blogvio ( http://www.blogvio.com ) tomorrow, after 10 months of work. We submitted the project to the following websites: 1. CrunchBase http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blogvio 2. Angel List https://www.angel.co/blogvio 3. http://www.betali.st/ 39$ - http://betali.st/startups/blogvio 4. http://www.romanianstartups.com/ 5. http://www.startupli.st/ 6. http://www.kickoffboost.com/ 7. http://www.geekoped…

It'd be cool to see your press list and more important which of these sites have any real benefits.

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

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Post by vuzum »

uladzislau wrote: post #69
vuzum wrote: post #68

We're launching Blogvio ( http://www.blogvio.com ) tomorrow, after 10 months of work. We submitted the project to the following websites: 1. CrunchBase http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blogvio 2. Angel List https://www.angel.co/blogvio 3. http://www.betali.st/ 39$ - http://betali.st/startups/blogvio 4. http://www.romanianstartups.com/ 5. http://www.startupli.st/ 6. http://www.kickoffboost.com/ 7. http://www.geekoped…

It'd be cool to see your press list and more important which of these sites have any real benefits.

Will definitely post more after launch, including this press list. We should be covered by a big player tomorrow. :-)

I'd say you need to hit the road really hard, and try to approach entities to which your product would provide real value.

For example we also found partnerships to be a great distribution channel. We approach them by showing how much value our product can bring to their service (e.g. http://andreipotorac.roon.io/from-blogvio-with-love - this is the real deal). So far it worked great with the ones we approached! This means thousands of potential users so far!

On the other hand, we help them with user acquisition since we're a platform that integrates well with publishing tools.

So:

1. Partnerships

2. Press

3. Sites above

This is the order you should use when building you distribution strategy.

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