December 7, 2017

7 places to submit your startup that actually work

I've submitted Feedbeaver to 50+ directories over the course of the month of November.

In some of my previous posts about the process of building an audience from scratch, a few of you asked more details about the process.

Here are a few of the directories that worked for me:

I share a few more stats such as pageviews I got from each one and some SEO details at my blog. If you're interested, check it out: 7 places to submit your startup that actually work

Bottom-line is that you shouldn't put too much hope in this strategy to build your product. It gets you a few subscribers, which can be invaluable to help you test your product and get your motivation up, but it's not a reliable, repeatable strategy.


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    "Show HN" > everything else in terms of traffic and feedback but it's hard to get to the front page.

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      Ipdata.co was on HN's frontpage yesterday!

      I'd submitted plenty of times before with barely any results but the one thing I can say I did differently yesterday was use the same language users use when describing a service like mine. I submitted right after reading jfaucett's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360233. Basically he's saying how at the time of writing there were no good geolocation providers and how "...it seems like this be a pretty good API service someone could offer, do it a lot cleaner more modern, better docs and bindings" and that led to me posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15879115

      The language in the title is what I believe had the greatest impact.

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        Audience research rocks, congratulations!

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    Instaaa.com submits your startup to 125+ directories for a price :) was definitely worth it for me.

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    Hi!

    Thanks a lot for sharing your experience. Can you please tell me if you are talking about submitting the working product or just landing page?

    I just started my landing page and struggling to find the first signups. Will these resource work for me?

    Thanks!

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      Just a landing page will work with any of these services.

      The only that requires a working product is Lucr.io.

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        Thanks for your response, I will start using them :)

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    Thanks for including Publicly.

    I just wanted to point out that the website is only about 2 weeks old. Also, it serves a very different purpose than the other sites listed.

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    I guess it's time to build an aggregator or something that can post to all of them! ;)

    Thanks for the share ruigomes.

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    I have one more question... I see many of those resources has paid option, and if you don't use it, you may wait 2 months and more... did you pay them?

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      I paid for a PH Ship Pro subscription and BetaList's expedited submission. Both of these are optional

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