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Re:How to use Reddit to get your first users by josefresco on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:55AM (#25208286)
This was not /r/roastme/ or /r/roastmystartup/ it was a perfectly normal (for Reddit standards) hobby/niche subreddit and I didn't ask to be roasted, I was offering help as in "hey I built a thing to help you, what do you think? And then I was eviscerated.
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Re:How to use Reddit to get your first users by xavier_ on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:59AM (#25208731)
It can happen sometimes yes, I've been roasted in a bad on some subs before.

That's really not the majority. What i understood afterwards was: the guys there weren't my target, my product didn't help them at all. They felt like I'm promoting out of the blue, and i got my ass kicked.

I just moved on and found a most targeted subs

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