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Ask HN: I built an app with HN users as target, how can I promote it?

2 points by earlyriser ↗ HN
I've built a web app for me (a guy who loves news from tech startups) and I think this is a big part of the HN demographic ADN, however, I've posted it twice in Show HN and the result has been abysmal. I'm happy with it and I use it daily, but there are some minor costs involved and I'd like to have more people using the app to cover the costs with ads, but primarily because I love when people find useful something I coded.

Description from the about page: "Techtronium is a news stream from hundred of startups and tech companies coming directly from their blogs. There’s no edition, no votes, no community, just news in chronological order."

1)Does it sound like something you'll use 2)If yes, do you have tips of how can I promote it.

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mooreds
How is this different than an RSS reader?
earlyriser
There's an explanation of the reason of existence of the app here https://medium.com/@techtronium/techtronium-startup-news-in-...

About feed readers: "Feed readers. I know lots of people who love their feed readers, but I never liked them, there’s too much responsibility in subscribing to the feeds I like and there’s no serendipity. I want to find surprises and feed readers just rely on myself."

drKarl
Where do the news come from? In HN the stories come from the users, and other users flag bad/false stories and interesting stories are upvoted and have more visibility so the ending result is quality of news is higher than other sites which offer news curated by a person or small group of people.

Also, in HN the comment sections is oftentimes much more interesting that the story itself...

earlyriser
About where the news are coming from: "There isn’t a voting system here like in the communities, but it’s a meritocracy because just the best companies are present (startups from the top accelerators, companies with a decent funding, the IPO giants and the internet darlings)"

I thought about putting comments, but I decided to skip that part and not let the feedback to be placed on the original post.