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Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
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Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#2The channels I'm trying to use, in order of most success:* Reddit
* Twitter
* Hacker News
* Dev.to
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#3* IndieHackers
* Niche Facebook groups
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#4My side-projects are mostly mathematical, so I used to post announcements on usenet sci.math.research pointing to the page on my website. Now I don't announce at all, I figure that interested people will probably find them via search and spread the word if the code's any good, ignore it if it's rubbish. I get some of each :-)
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#5Twitter is huge.
Indiehackers is great but they will know if you arent contributing as well.
Product Hunt is good for initial launch but don't let the vanity metrics go to your head.
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#6I see a couple of posts mentioning IndieHackers.
I'd say IH is a great resource for "Side Hustles"
But I think of "Side Projects" as a different thing.
It doesn't look like the place where you post your OSS GitHub project hoping to find (non-paying) adopters and build a community.
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#7show hn > reddit > alternativeTo imho. indiehackers and other small communities are just too little traffic so i feel like i m spamming them. product hunt is either hit, or miss completely. reddit has /sideprojects and /imadethis , but you could also promote it to niche subreddits related to your project
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#8My side-projects are mostly mathematical, so I used to post announcements on usenet sci.math.research pointing to the page on my website. Now I don't announce at all, I figure that interested people will probably find them via search and spread the word if the code's any good, ignore it if it's rubbish. I get some of each :-)
unfortunately google is not supportive of newish content these days. if you re interested in some feedback , would be worth to simply post on reddit or some other forum, or to a twitter audience if you have the time
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#9Mostly niche groups. HN isn't really the right target market.
Re: Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
#10Who is your target market? If for example it’s students then you can post a job on websites like WayUp, look for interns to help you spread the word. There is a fee on such websites but you do get interns plus people who are interested in your product to try it in the process. If your target market is actors for example then you can do similar things in casting websites...get the idea?