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

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.<p>There would also be a lot of opportunity for people to test each others projects so it could be really useful.<p>There will also be regular blog articles looking at progressing products on the site &#38; the achievements/challenges the team building it faces.<p>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!<p>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.<p>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!

You are over-thinking this. Seriously.<p>What does your product do?<p>Who needs it?<p>Let's say you product allows cats to tweet. Your customer would be cat owners that are tech oriented.<p>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.<p>Point is that you need to get out there, outside of your comfort zone and sell the damn thing.<p>Good luck.

While you probably get a lot of traffic with HN and reddit it really depends on your product.<p>For example: if you build a managing app for landlords I doubt any of the sites you mentioned will bring you paying customers.<p>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.

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 ;)

I'm interested in this too, Paskulin, perhaps we can swap notes? wahyu at symbol picocrew.com

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