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Re:Ask HN: Advice on building a community from scratch? by sharemywin on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:35PM (#11491464)
I built a classified ad site once. I pre-seeded it with some of my own classifieds and then advertised it on google. I got people to fill out classifieds but it just wasn't enough to get a marketplace off the ground.
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Re:Ask HN: Advice on building a community from scratch? by giarcyevod on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:43PM (#11491529)
I remember somewhere reading that the founders of Reddit did the same. Did you use adwords?
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Re:Ask HN: Advice on building a community from scratch? by sharemywin on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:30PM (#11491927)
yes. was paying about 10 cents a click back then.
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