I was just wondering how people get their startups noticed? I've been tweeting and marketing my startup (currently just a landing page) for the past week and have only had 20 signups. Similar startups (only a landing page) get 500+ signups on the first day.<p>Should I be doing anything specific to get my startup noticed?
Okay - I found the following with a quick dig through our developed website portfolio:<p>* <a href="http://www.RecipeAvenue.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.RecipeAvenue.com</a><p>* <a href="http://www.TheDrinkMaker.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.TheDrinkMaker.com</a><p>* <a href="http://www.USRestaurantGuide.info" rel="nofollow">http://www.USRestaurantGuide.info</a><p>* <a href="http://www.dGroceryStore.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dGroceryStore.com</a><p>I don't know the traffic levels on these sites (we don't track such things individually for each site) but I guestimate a collective volume of ~ 20-25k PVs/mo.<p>If you wish, we can run a (site-wide) promo of your landing page on all of the above sites for a few weeks. (You don't need to pay anything - at any time - unless you must ;-)).<p>Let me know if you're interested.
Maybe try putting more information on your landing page. People would be more likely to sign up if they had more than 5 words to figure out what your startup does.
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.<p>In other words... DEBUG = False when you're exposing the rest to the world.
I just asked the same question basically: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218427" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218427</a>
Your splash page is very bland, having looked on <a href="http://dinnerplanner.net" rel="nofollow">http://dinnerplanner.net</a> there isn't much on it other than 20 words.<p>I recommend that you make your splash page/landing page better by adding more information, or even a few screenshots etc to hep encourage signups to your service.<p>However, this seems more of a marketing issue. You should focus more on your marketing efforts as well as, how your competitors marketed your product? Also you should consider contacting publications such as a food blog etc, as this will also help you acquire more signups.