Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup?

Posted by kdforf on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:04AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have been trying to get some major tech websites coverage for my new startup but they don't even seem to read my emails and if they do, they don't even send me a reply. I have tried to make connections with some of their authors but that didn't work either!

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by sharemywin on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:46AM (#6257852)

I read somewhere on here about a process of starting with smaller blogs and feeding a news story from there because bigger news outlets source stories from smaller sites, etc. might check out this post too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by kdforf on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:48AM (#6257865)

Thanks for sharing, Do you know any good and small tech websites that I can use for this purpose?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by sharemywin on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:54AM (#6257901)

you might try googling: "[your niche] blog" "[your niche forum" "[your niche] comparision" etc. look for keyword tools around your niche. search twitter for keywords aroudn yuor niche.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by cunninghamd on Thursday August 22, 2013 @04:47PM (#6259965)

Or use technorati's search engine, and work through the top 100 backwards. That's the suggestion I recently read.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by ohashi on Thursday August 22, 2013 @10:45PM (#6261408)

I wrote up how I got TechCrunch to cover my launch. I didn't really have the connections or relationships. A big part was luck.

http://kevinohashi.com/27/11/2012/reverse-engineering-startu...

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by ig1 on Thursday August 22, 2013 @12:50PM (#6258271)

Mike Butcher wrote a good guide to it:

http://www.slideshare.net/mikebutcher/how-to-deal-with-tech-...

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by grishma on Thursday August 22, 2013 @01:21PM (#6258492)

video of same & 2 others: https://www.themediagraph.com/blog/2013/pitching-a-startup-t...

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by zane123 on Thursday August 22, 2013 @07:09PM (#6260694)

HIGHLY Suggest making the login/register fields, boxes, buttons smaller...

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by sharemywin on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:51AM (#6257888)

what does your startup do?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by kdforf on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:56AM (#6257922)

It is kind of a Google Reader alternative but in a much creative way than all those Google Reader clones such as Feedly or AOL Reader

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by petervandijck on Friday August 23, 2013 @09:13AM (#6263258)

That's not interesting to any tech blog. Because 1. the googleReaderIsDead story is dead now, and 2. "A new kind of a Google Reader Alternative" is not a story anyone would want to read.

If you want to be in the news, you need something newsy. Some kind of hook. If you can't find that, you're not newsy, nobody will be interested in your project and they won't write about you.

Is there anything at all about the app that stands out? That would peek someone's interest? Once you identify that, you can try contacting them again. You need a pitch.

In other words: HOW is it new and interesting? WHAT makes it so great?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by b3b0p on Thursday August 22, 2013 @02:25PM (#6258992)

Is this it?

http://picktoread.com/

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by kdforf on Thursday August 22, 2013 @02:55PM (#6259231)

Yes :D

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by ibudiallo on Thursday August 22, 2013 @02:27PM (#6259005)

Did you do a show HN?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get major websites to cover your startup? by kdforf on Thursday August 22, 2013 @02:55PM (#6259233)

yes I did but it didn't make it to the first page!

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