What are good places to advertise your product before posting on HN or Product Hunt?
I’m looking for places that could generate a moderate amount of traffic to test and prepare, but haven’t found many places. So far:
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Reddit: r/selfpromote and r/startup have threads
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lobste.rs: This one requires an invitation to post
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hubski: smaller community but very engaging people - great for early feedback
Anyone had any other that would be worth sharing?
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I have a list.
Here you go:-
Thanks for adding Fifty to the list!
Welcome :)
Thank you for the list.
Dang, I only know Hackernoon and Beta List lol
Welcome. No problem buddy, Hope this list helps you in some or the other way.
Hackernoon is definitely a great place to get feedback! Aside from publishing a story there, you can also post about it the Hackernoon community portal - I was able to get crucial feedback from the founder of Hackernoon himself by doing that!
Yes hackernoon can be really great source of traffic as well as feedback
This is invaluable! Thanks so much!
No Problem :)
I noticed most of these have sponsorship options or other paid options to get approved faster. Has anyone tried these options and had any luck with them?
Since we've recently launched on PH I'm starting to have a process on how to optimize a launch... Including a list of places where sharing your product/solution could make sense:
SAAS Growth Hack (FB-Group)
SaaS Product & Marketing (FB-Group)
ProductHunt Upvote Club (FB-Group)
ProductHunt Upvote (FB-Group)
Startup Product Launch (FB-Group)
SaaS Marketer (FB-Group)
ProductHunt Upvote & Promotion (FB-Group)
ProductHunt Upvote Exchange (FB-Group)
ProductHunt Upvote Promotion & Exchange Club (FB-Group)
Online Geniuses (Slack)
/r/Startup
/r/ProductHunters
/r/GrowthHacking
/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong
/r/SideProject
/r/SmallBusiness
Planning to make a complete guide on IH explaining how we prepared our launches, where and how we posted our content, and more... Do you think it would be valuable/relevant for you?
That sounds very valuable.
That would be extremely helpful. Checking google on that topic doesn't good any meaningful or pragmatic answers. Thanks for sharing this list!
It is indeed always the same content: "Follow PH rules, have a set of pictures, ..." But it usually does not give an actionable plan that can be used right away :)
You can post on Reddit in r/SideProject & r/webdev on Saturday otherwise, they will remove it. I saw some good traffic from both the subreddits I also posted in r/notion as my app is related to it.
Hey @m15o, you can submit your project to SaaSHub. You won't get too much traffic bur rather a small amount of relevant traffic. Links to your project are "do follow". However, only tech products are approved.
Thanks for that! Quality vs quantity is definitly what I'm looking for in terms of traffic.
I submitted tractific.com but got almost 0 traffic. What should I do?
Submited 2 of my projects, I like the process of submitting it. By the way, to get started did you scrape any other software suggestions directories? Because I saw a competitior that was out of the market for more than a year.
I run a problem validation platform - https://needgap.com, where people post the problems they have; If your product solves any of the 'problem' you're welcomed to explain what your product does and link to it in the discussion.
e.g. https://needgap.com/problems/30-getting-things-done-at-individual-level-productivity-taskmanagement
P.S. Please be informed that its problem first site, so a 'startup idea' is not allowed to be posted directly unless it's in the discussion for solving a particular problem.
When I was launching One Word Domains, I posted about it here as a "soft launch" - partly to get some feedback from the IH community, but also to share my journey. It worked pretty well - I still get users coming in through that post every now and then.
This is what I did:
Post of relevant subreddits related to your product. Since my product Blanq targeted marketeers, I posted on marketing subreddit and got to the front page. I got about 15 signups that day and great feedback.
Start a blog and post articles in various online communities rather than submitting a link to your app. I would recommend listicles since they are easy to write and share.
Learn SEO and optimize all your pages. I have at least 1 signup per day through Google and Bing.
Stay active on IndieHacker - Contribute, help others, get noticed. My recent customer came via Indiehacker :)
I had a look at r/marketing subreddit guidelines. They seem to be against product/website reviews. Were you an active member and it was allowed ?