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Ask HN: Product Idea: Find community/audience relevant to your product

4 points by aminmemon ↗ HN
Problem: Business owners wanting to find communities where they can reach their possible target audience but face difficulties because it is a time consuming and tedious process with no centralized resource.

Solution: Building a product which enables the business owner to Search for a list of communities, forums, blogs, newsletters, social media influencers(Twitter/Instagram Accounts) based on categories such as Developers, Startup, Marketers, Designers, Music, Writers, etc.

Do you face such a problem? or anything similar? Would you pay for a solution like this?

5 comments

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dashon
Sounds interesting. I might use such a solution and would be willing to pay for it but depending on the quality and how many communities I can find.
aminmemon
Initially I am looking forward to add around 3-4 categories with atleast 50+ communities in each category.
ranaway
I've been there. It's not that hard to find communities/forums/etc that are relevant. Just dropping in with a post about your new app rarely goes over well. It's a much more nuanced problem than finding people, you have to engage them, ask questions and pay attention to the answers.
aminmemon
So you were constantly monitoring forums? How many communities/forums were you engaging with at once?
starg
The solution will only help in finding communities where I could post my startup. I might be interested to pay if there is something more to it, maybe like a tool for managing my brand on a particular community.