Places to Post Your Startup or Product

#1

Post by zvanness » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 7:47 PM UTC

Places to Post Your Startup or Product
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Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

#2

Post by kensai » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:05 PM UTC

This begs for an application to automatically post on all (or at least most) of them! :D

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by stephenitis » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:11 PM UTC

kensai wrote: post #2

This begs for an application to automatically post on all (or at least most) of them! :D

A lazy approach like that would have very mixed results I'd expect. Efficient if bootstrapping and unable to manage it all with a small team though.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:16 PM UTC

Since this is on front page, here's a little rant about spamming sites with your product:

Don't.

Yes, discoverability is broken. But that doesn't justify spamming, or other "growth hacking" that the Product Hunt culture has made socially acceptable (in fact, there has been a rise in clever voting manipulation tactics on Hacker News because such tactics have been normalized on PH: https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/status/855661997169364993).

Spamming won't magically make you go viral. And if you don't go viral, that's ok. Improve and try again.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

#5

Post by toni » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:20 PM UTC

Who would benefit from posting their product to 125 websites except spammers and growth hackers?

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by kensai » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:22 PM UTC

stephenitis wrote: post #3

kensai wrote: post #2

This begs for an application to automatically post on all (or at least most) of them! :D

A lazy approach like that would have very mixed results I'd expect. Efficient if bootstrapping and unable to manage it all with a small team though.

Only if it is executed lazy.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:23 PM UTC

kensai wrote: post #6

stephenitis wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lazy approach like that would have very mixed results I'd expect. Efficient if bootstrapping and unable to manage it all with a small team though.

Only if it is executed lazy.

"Automatic" and "executed lazy" are synonymous.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by kensai » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:26 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

kensai wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if it is executed lazy.

"Automatic" and "executed lazy" are synonymous.

I was talking about the mixed results part. Automatic/lazy is indifferent to me.

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by radley » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Since this is on front page, here's a little rant about spamming sites with your product: Don't . Yes, discoverability is broken. But that doesn't justify spamming, or other "growth hacking" that the Product Hunt culture has made socially acceptable (in fact, there has been a rise in clever voting manipulation tactics on Hacker News because such tactics have been normalized on PH: https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/stat…

I'm confused. Are you saying promotion == spam?

Re: Places to Post Your Startup or Product

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Apr 26, 2017, 9:03 PM UTC

radley wrote: post #9

minimaxir wrote: post #4

Since this is on front page, here's a little rant about spamming sites with your product: Don't . Yes, discoverability is broken. But that doesn't justify spamming, or other "growth hacking" that the Product Hunt culture has made socially acceptable (in fact, there has been a rise in clever voting manipulation tactics on Hacker News because such tactics have been normalized on PH: https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/stat…

I'm confused. Are you saying promotion == spam?

Posting your product indiscriminately, as is the premise of the OP, is spam.

Promoting your product via Twitter or your friends is fine. (promoting a submission on Hacker News [i.e. highlighting the submission itself in an attempt to vote manipulate] is against the site rules, which is not spam but still bad)