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A comment on Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more?.

Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by nchudleigh on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:41PM (#10935924)
Product Hunt is a great (and free) place to start

Personal Networks, writing blog posts about what you've learned, interact with people (genuinely) on twitter (and obviously link your project in your account), Reddit is also good. With any of these respect the community and don't spam them (you don't seem the type given your post here, thought I would mention anyways)

If its technical and you know where the people are who benefit go and interact with them. Help them with something they need help with. Then get them to try it, find issues, fix 'em, rinse repeat.

It takes a lot of footwork!

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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by chdir on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:02PM (#10936006)
PH isn't great because of lack of transparency. See related discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827

There's OpenHunt, it's slowly gaining momentum www.openhunt.co

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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by mod on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:36PM (#10936101)
If "ask hn" is any measure, OpenHunt is actually rapidly losing what little momentum it had.
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by kyriakos on Saturday January 23, 2016 @01:43AM (#10957460)
yeah I kept checking it ever since is was featured here but it seems to be on the way down. very few submissions with very little votes. too bad. it's a good idea.
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by chipperyman573 on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:56PM (#10935981)
Product Hunt seems like it's pretty hard to post without knowing someone else who will invite you as you can't comment or post without being invited, JUST upvote. Is there any way to get in at least semi-easily?
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by griffinmb on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:03PM (#10936010)
I initially thought about PH, but was scared off by the recent posts about needing an 'insider'. Maybe I shouldn't have let it deter me, but I'm also not sure my site is 'right' for Product Hunt and I'm definitely not an active part of their community.
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by gkoberger on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:18AM (#10936211)
You don't need an insider. They just vet things for quality, in order to keep the homepage from being overrun with bad content. If your app is good, you'll get scheduled and launched – nothing to worry about :)
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by chipperyman573 on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @01:12PM (#10940069)
I can't submit at all without an insider.
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by adnanh on Saturday January 23, 2016 @07:29AM (#10958156)
Reach out to them (PH) via twitter, I managed to get an invite that way :)
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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? by mid0 on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:08PM (#10936029)
focus on channels u r familiar with and gradually learn about other channels/build rep and help others.
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