Promoting on Hacker News

This cluster revolves around advice for startups and developers to gain traction for their products by posting to Hacker News (e.g., Show HN, Ask HN), starting blogs, SEO, contacting bloggers, and using sites like GrowthHackers.

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siquick Jan 20, 2016 View on HN

Read this book ASAPhttp://tractionbook.com/and read https://growthhackers.com/ to get ideasAnother trick - post your URL in Ask HN posts ;)

S4M Oct 26, 2015 View on HN

Try to post your articles to a place where they would be relevant. If your blog is about programming or startup, people from HN might be interested in it and upvote it. Then, once the search engines know about your blog, you can try to do some SEO so people will find it when looking for something related.

ecesena Jul 5, 2019 View on HN

Blog more often, and blog about you using your tool to solve problems. Use titles that don't talk about your tool, but about the problem you're solving in the article.It's likely people will search on google for these problems, find you post and thus try out your tool. Also, post your blogs ton HN/Reddit, 1 every n posts will hit.

readthenotes1 Nov 11, 2023 View on HN

One approach is to write a blog posting about how you created your product and get it on the front page of Hacker News

iso1210 May 22, 2020 View on HN

Write a blog and post it to HN, hopefully you'll gain traction

rjb May 23, 2007 View on HN

Many little sneezes could turn into buzz.You could let people know about your product/service here. The community here is quite helpful and honest. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=20342

tom4s Jan 24, 2011 View on HN

I am thinking about 2 things right now:First, send e-mails to famous blogers and ask them to post about my website.Second, post about website right here, on hackernews, and ask people to post review on their blogs if they find it useful and interesting website.What do you think?

cedricd Nov 15, 2012 View on HN

Maybe start a blog? Lots of sites use this to get traction.

LorenDB Sep 7, 2023 View on HN

Man, that's amazing! I'm going to start help you with marketing, beginning with a dedicated HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37417410

glimcat Aug 6, 2011 View on HN

Ah - you're interested in releasing press releases, not generating them.I would start contacting relevant blogs / bloggers directly. If you can get it picked up in a few major channels, it will echo. Posting to HN can also be a good method. In either case, it helps to have a good presentation with some appropriate media content so that it's easy to prepare a compelling article about it.