Re:Show HN: Reddit search engine for startup founders
by AlchemistCamp on Monday June 13, 2022 @05:05AM
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> I wasn't going around spamming — I made a post on LPT when my startup launched
How many launches of other startups not affiliated with you did you share there first? What % of your comments in the sub would you say were on threads you didn't start?
Re:Show HN: Reddit search engine for startup founders
by gnicholas on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:58PM
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I made one post! If I'd known that my idea was going to get so popular, and that reddit would be somewhere it might spread, I would have joined the community sooner and gotten engaged. But lacking a time machine, I just created an account and made the one post that became incredibly popular.
Re:Show HN: Reddit search engine for startup founders
by AlchemistCamp on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:14PM
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It sounds like you weren’t a spammer but your interest really isn’t community so much using them as a marketing channel.
If you were more intrinsically interested in the community, you’d probably have signed up long ago and engaged with plenty of other people’s posts, like you did here here on HN!
Re:Show HN: Reddit search engine for startup founders
by gnicholas on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:05AM
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Haha I signed up for HN around the same time, actually. I stayed involved in the community here because it was so welcoming! After my experiences on reddit, I was a bit gun-shy.
Is there a subreddit that has an analog of 'Show HN'? Or have HN and PH basically sucked all the oxygen out of that particular room?
I can see that I would have been much better off letting one of my startup's users, or someone who had seen our Show HN, post to reddit and get the ball rolling. That would have generated the same type of publicity, and I would have been able to jump into the comments and answer questions in the same way. Lesson learned!