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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop a userbase for your side proje... by djmill on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:54AM (#13383176)
Nice! Yeah definitely mixed results with Reddit, but it's great for free one-time advertising.

Another downside is you can't hit your audience more than once without being targeted a spammer, so I like to think of it as a free 'usertesting.com' outlet.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop a userbase for your side proje... by jetti on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:43AM (#13383721)
You can hit them more than once, depending on your target audience. I posted my library to /r/elixir and then to /r/programming. Admittedly it didn't do well on /r/programming but it got some views
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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop a userbase for your side proje... by djmill on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:59AM (#13383880)
Good to know. Maybe I'll post again in a couple of months to see if I can snag more users.
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