Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I promote it?

Re:Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I pr... by iamds on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:17AM (#3980869)

I think it looks great!

In order for other people to start using it, it needs to look like it's being used. I think that you should create about a 100 users and add a few hundred products and comments. It'll take you a few hours of work, but it'll make the site appear to be much more successful, thus bringing in more users.

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Re:Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I pr... by dholowiski on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:46PM (#3983128)

I agree - you need to fake some data... it sounds kind of shady but it's common and necessary for a service like this. I would do it myself, but you can outsource on amazon mechanical turk (if it's dead easy), or use something like elance.

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Re:Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I pr... by victorin on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @08:19AM (#3981676)

Totally agree, right now the site doesn't look like it's being used. In fact it isn't cause it's brand new.

However I don't want to make all this monotone work. Do you know any place where I could outsource that?

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Re:Ask HN: I built a site that IMO can be huge. How can I pr... by iamds on Thursday May 17, 2012 @02:50AM (#3985803)

In all honesty, I'd just go ahead and do it yourself. It's easy mindless work. Put a movie on the tv, sit back with your laptop and just go at it. You'll get more done by the end of the film than you'd think.

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