Do you use Hacker News for marketing?

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Richard Reis · Accepted Answer

You just post to Show HN and use a title that's not clickbaity. It costs nothing, take 10 seconds, and could add traffic. So it's worth it regardless :)

Unlike other launch platforms that will charge you, make you wait weeks, etc...

Joshua Brueckner · Answer

@marclou wrote an incredible post on marketing on Hacker News which landed many of his products in the leaderboard on PH - here's the post

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This platform is much complicated.

Vaibhav · Answer

@sunny_sogra Yes, I think one can only get better their with time.

Sunny Kumar · Answer

@vaibhavdwivedi It works well, but it is hard to crack. The most common issue I encounter is its post-flagging problem.

Luca · Answer

I've never posted to hacker news but I do consume content from it regularly, some really cool stuff people have created!

Donald Sang · Answer

dont really understand...the community is too tech for me, and the rule kind of complicated. hope to get some clear guide

Vaibhav · Answer

I have tried posting there a bunch of times but not worked out well. Not sure if it is relevant anymore.

Leo Paz · Answer

@jabrueckner great resource

KJ · Answer

@jabrueckner thank you for sharing this

Vihaan Gupta · Answer

It is really hard to crack!

Sunny Kumar · Answer

@donald_sang Yeah! It's complicated!

Do you use Hacker News for marketing?

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