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Florian Rappl

The thing that I miss here: How to really use these channels? If a famous / well known person endorses the product then of course people will have a look. But what's the situation if you are not that known or famous?

For pages like Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, ... you must have a network of followers (or some / enough points to post) otherwise you are not going anywhere. How was the situation for you on these pages there and how was your strategy. How to grow from there, too?

I think these are the interesting questions, which, unfortunately, have been left out. Any update appreciated.

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Navendu Pottekkat • Edited

Most of these pages let you share a title and a link. For example in Reddit r/webdev, I made a post on Showoff Saturday when you can share your projects with the community. The post was "Browser extension to block NSFW content using AI" and I had the link to my GitHub repo.

Hacker News has a thing called Show HN. I made a similar post there with a link to my repo.

After making the post, there would be some comments. This can be a good place to get feedback and engage with your users/contributors.

I only have some 600 Karma in reddit and about 30 followers on Twitter.

The strategy is to go all out. Once you have some reach, other publications, online newsletters would share your project. Then you will have plenty of visitors organically.

I hope I was able to provide some idea. Thank you for asking the question.

Edit: I shared it on product hunt just to get some people interested in contributing. I created an account and hunted my own project. Normally, you would go to a top hunter for this. Try to convey the idea of your project in a single sentence. It should be that simple and engaging.

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Florian Rappl

If I'm new to Reddit - how can I post? Getting 600 karma take a lot of time.

I guess you misunderstood my question slightly.

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Navendu Pottekkat

I too did not have much Karma before posting about the project. Some communities require a buffer period where you can join the community but not post anything.

So I would suggest you start using Reddit. These communities are really interesting and you can find a lot of cool stuff there. Engage with posts. And after you have a minimum Karma, post it.

There can be a lot of criticisms and people may respond to your project badly and that is something you have to risk