Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or side projects

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by danenania on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:38AM (#14446072)

Good idea... I signed up and I'm looking forward to seeing how it works.

I'm working on a tool for developers (secrets management -- https://www.envkey.com), that is currently available for two languages, Ruby and Node.js. How likely is it that I'll be able to find newsletters that cater to my niche through your service?

On that note, it would be nice if I could specify some parameters when I sign up to be sure the newsletters I'm getting notified about are relevant.

Good luck!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by petercooper on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @02:04PM (#14447183)

Ruby and Node.js. How likely is it that I'll be able to find newsletters that cater to my niche through your service?

We have http://rubyweekly.com/ and http://nodeweekly.com/ if that helps specifically ;-) There is also http://greenruby.org/ and https://nodejs.libhunt.com/newsletter.

To be fair, just Googling "[topic] newsletter" tends to give the best results in my experience.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by pixelfeeder on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:41AM (#14446094)

Looks great. There are actually a bunch of developer focussed newsletters in our database. So yes. Great idea on the parameters. Noted and will find a way to have it in the product.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by tyingq on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:00PM (#14446234)

Newsletters about compliance type stuff might be a good fit too. PCI, Sarbanes Oxley, etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by danenania on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:09PM (#14446767)

Great! Looking forward to the first batch.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by tyingq on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @11:59AM (#14446225)

Not newsletters, and more labor intensive, but finding discussions/forums/etc talking about secret management and tastefully commenting on them might be fruitful.

Smartystreets.com does a relatively good job with this. They find discussions, and try to give good advice that doesn't depend on their product, with a VERY light pointer to their site. It's somewhat tricky to add value to the discussion without sounding like an obvious sales pitch.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by danenania on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:08PM (#14446764)

Yeah, it's a delicate balance but I agree it can work really well when done right.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by garysieling on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @12:18PM (#14446364)

For what this is worth, I've been getting email subscribers through HN and other programming forums for https://www.findlectures.com. At least anecdotally there seem to be a lot of programmers joining, despite not being necessarily being a programmer focused list.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Upstart – Find newsletters to promote your business or si... by danenania on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @01:08PM (#14446761)

Thanks! I'll check it out.

[ Parent | on HN ]