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Will work for traction

6 points by zebra ↗ HN
In the last 6 months our team has shoestringed a bookmarking tool for power users. The project is stable beta, but now we have a problem:

0. No connections in the valley. 1. No money for advertising. 2. Both of us are introverts. Unfortunately this excludes social promotion.

We are looking to make a project for you in the next 3 to 24 months and we'd like to have publicity for our project in return.

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maxwin
One suggestion. You should put a link to your bookmarking tool. There is no shame on promoting yourself in the right context. Or at least put it in your profile.
len
weve been working on the starving artist problem (aka building distribution for your work). get in touch.
Whitespace
I fail to see how this would work out. If you get enough good publicity -- the kind that'll keep you busy for the next couple of months with users/scaling/networking opportunities -- how will you be able to fulfill your promise to take on extra work? And if being introverts is preventing you from networking/marketing it yourselves, how do you think you'll handle success?
zebra
The tool is almost ready - it needs ~15 days work to be 100% ready. Scaling is not a problem - different users go to a different servers (this site is not very social).

Success for me is to have money for me and my family. I think that an individual can be successful without being public.

jfoster
As other comments allude to, you need to grow yourselves in order to grow your product. I know it's not easy and feels unnatural, but the benefits will stick with you the rest of your life. I'm a bit introverted myself and I've been working on fixing it.
zebra
I tried to fix this. I went to a shrink. I'm over 30, I'm not 16. This is the rason I choose this unusual route of action.
willgdjones
Hey,

I'm a student in the UK at UCL, and I'm lucky enough to be president of the Entrepreneurs Society.

I've got a few projects that I need some help with, and I would love to trade publicity (most likely it will be in London) for help with development.

Email me on president@uclentrepreneurs.com if your interested and we can talk some more.

Thanks,

Will