Pardon my ignorance but I see most of the suggested links from tech news/blog sites. But unless your customers are entrepreneurs and tech readers, shouldn't you launch where your customers are ? (which could be any aggregation website from farming, medicine or any other subject matter)
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#72http://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…
I actually love (and share) your opinion(s) on startup culture.
However, as someone who really does commit to projects (as in, will work on them 6 months after the checks stop rolling in) this list is pretty great. Free traffic from early adopters is a good way to test a new product.
I do think there's a time and a place for this though. Know your market. Free traffic/press is nice, but only if you want a bunch of tech nerds using your stuff.
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#74Earlier 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 $0.99/month instead! Or I hate it, change x, y, z and make it free and I'll consider it Which can be safely discarded. Definitely don't take any criticism received to heart!
Grain of salt? There isn't enough Sodium on this planet I can read Reddit with.
Comments are garbage most of the time unless you find some super niche undeveloped subreddit unplagued by the masses, only retaining passionate users.
What happens is a community starts with people passionate about the topic of the community, and then the focus shifts from content to community preservation once the masses leak in and it devolves from there.
Because it's unmoderated for the most part (subreddit moderators don't count, most are bad at what they do, source: most subreddit content is bad), communities quickly devolve into the lowest common denominator of discussion, memes, bad unfunny overused jokes, and puns (which I really don't mind actually).
Sorry, I have a severe distaste for Reddit once I realized how "dumb" it actually is. I realized this when I saw articles posted to Reddit from HN that hit r/all and how different the comments were. Reddit for the most part seems fueled by hormones, HN is level headed.
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#75Also check out http://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/
That is a great resource!
Also check out
http://breakpoint.io - show your side project to the world!
http://sideprojects.web3canvas.com/
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#76We're launching Blogvio ( http://www.blogvio.com ) tomorrow, after 10 months of work. We submitted the project to the following websites: 1. CrunchBase http://www.crunchbase.com/company/blogvio 2. Angel List https://www.angel.co/blogvio 3. http://www.betali.st/ 39$ - http://betali.st/startups/blogvio 4. http://www.romanianstartups.com/ 5. http://www.startupli.st/ 6. http://www.kickoffboost.com/ 7. http://www.geekoped…
thanks for sharing these, i know it will help a bunch of people in the future!
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#77It'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.
HN recognizes if a link has been posted before so if you submit your homepage once that's it.
I've run two Show HN posts for my new project (https://wecombinate.com) and had zero replies or even visits from both. It seems you need to have a group of people upvote early on otherwise you'll disappear very quickly.
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#78http://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://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.
What about http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ ?
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#79Earlier 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…
I noticed the general rate at which shit is thrown at walls to check for stickiness seems to have gone up exponentially ever since the lean startup movement became popular.
Well, you know Y-combinator, 500startups, etc. are part of that movement.
It s funny too, because people complain about the lack of innovation and/or people not working on hard/meaningful problems, etc. I happen to agree with that complaint, but it boggles my mind that many don't seem to connect it with the lean startup culture. Seems like a pretty natural consequence.
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#80http://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…
Actually I have my startup featured on crunchbase and a ton of people contact me monthly fro there for all kinds of services to startups. I guess it's both a good and a bad thing.
Nobody's buying and everyone's selling. Kinda like MLM.