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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6257550

by kdforf • 13 years ago

19 15 13 years ago

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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!

sharemywin3• 13 years ago

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

kdforf4• 13 years ago

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

sharemywin3• 13 years ago

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.

sharemywin3• 13 years ago

what does your startup do?

kdforf4• 13 years ago

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

b3b0p• 13 years ago

Is this it?

http://picktoread.com/

ibudiallo• 13 years ago

Did you do a show HN?

petervandijck• 13 years ago

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?

ig1• 13 years ago

Mike Butcher wrote a good guide to it:

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

grishma• 13 years ago

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

zane123• 13 years ago

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

ohashi• 13 years ago

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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