Entrepreneurs, please help - How do you get an audience and customers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52300

by mtw • 19 years ago

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if you are a web entrepreneur, do you write "Top 10 ways..." posts for reddit or digg, and get friends to vote for them? or youtube videos? or adwords? any tip appreciated. we are about to launch a web application but we all have tech backgrounds and clueless about web marketing.

epi0Bauqu• 19 years ago

What is your Web application? What do you want people to do--just visit your site; try it out; blog about it? What niches are most likely to do what you want? Let's start there.

mtw• 19 years ago

the app is a mix between twitter and backpackit. you use it to for your upcoming tasks, but the principle is that everything is public, so your social circle can see what you are currently working on. you can view the "social" as either peer pressure (so you get stuff done), or simply just keep in touch with friends or colleagues.

obviously, we want as much people as possible to try it, use it, and add their friends.

the niche might be the GTD people, although it's not a 100% implementation of the book. the app is very simple (a la 37Signals) and obviously it's not for people who want MS project or even elaborate solutions like Zoho Projects.

amichail• 19 years ago

facebook platform

iamyoohoo• 19 years ago

totally useless now for a new company.

rms2• 19 years ago

Encourage people to write blog posts about your software.

dappelbaum• 19 years ago

web entrepreneur != blogger

rms2• 19 years ago

Things that are likely to be voted highly on digg or reddit are really good for your pagerank.

For some industries, pagerank is the only thing that matters. If I could displace the kratom king in google searches for "kratom" I could turn my tiny business into something real.

Entrepreneurs, please help - How do you get an audience and customers?

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