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Ask HN: Where to put links of your Minimum viable product?

9 points by Paskulin ↗ HN
As a Startup company we created plenty of MVP's. But after every MVP there was always a question.

Where should we put links so a MVP can get as much users as possible?

Facebook.com Twitter.com Pinterest.com Reddit.com http://news.ycombinator.com

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Where was your "getting users" media?

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robotmay
Here and Reddit so far, though I really should investigate Pinterest more (I'm targeting families). Twitter has a really low pickup rate for me, probably because I'm not that popular. Facebook is a little better as friends are more easily blackmailed into testing things ;)
rmoriz
While you probably get a lot of traffic with HN and reddit it really depends on your product.

For example: if you build a managing app for landlords I doubt any of the sites you mentioned will bring you paying customers.

Maybe some people spread the word about your MVP but I'm not sure if a MVP has enough impact to make people spread the word.

hyuuu
I'm interested in this too, Paskulin, perhaps we can swap notes? wahyu at symbol picocrew.com
Paskulin
Hey, no problem. I will send you mine this week. I don't have a lot of them, but still some can be helpful.
helen842000
I'm working on a little community where people with projects and mvp's can showcase their links, progress, mix with others working in their space.

There would also be a lot of opportunity for people to test each others projects so it could be really useful.

There will also be regular blog articles looking at progressing products on the site & the achievements/challenges the team building it faces.

Hopefully the blog will be a good resource for early tech adopters to learn about new things to try and will be a good source of genuine users!

We've had quite a lot of interest so far, especially from teams that didn't make it to YC this cycle but are carrying on regardless.

If you think this would be interesting, let me know. Feedback on it would be appreciated and I can be sure to drop any of you a mail once it's time for folks to sign up!

jazzylady
This sounds interesting to me. Where and how did you gather feedback on your idea? Please contact me, jasna at hekovnik.si when you have landing page up or will be able to sign up.
creativeone
adwords. just make sure you have a business plan.
[dead] creativeone
adwords. just make sure you have a business plan.
rmATinnovafy
You are over-thinking this. Seriously.

What does your product do?

Who needs it?

Let's say you product allows cats to tweet. Your customer would be cat owners that are tech oriented.

You think of ways to find this people. Hmmm... you could try youtube viral by doing a video of you cat Dr. Evil tweeting. Or you could go to the local pet shops and give a free "seminar" on how to teach your cat to tweet.

Point is that you need to get out there, outside of your comfort zone and sell the damn thing.

Good luck.