Yesterday I linked my new game (http://parrothunt.nergal.se) in reddit.com/r/webgames to hopefully get feedback. And just then I realized how powerful reddit is to spread your work and get feedback. It's so simple to target towards correct group of people, in this case games created for the web. Nowhere else that I'm aware of can you reach out to thousands of people around the world with the same interest that easily.<p>So only in 24 hours my little game has been played about 1100 times and had above 1500 unique visitors. I've gotten multiple feature requests and a lot of positive comments.<p>Reaching out to people interested in the same subject and get that huge response gets you motivated to continue develop what you love to do. I strongly recommend people who spend a lot of time working on small projects in their spare time to spread their work at reddit. It's not just another funny pictures site!<p>Thumbs up for reddit!
Congrats. But you might want to consider the possibility of survivorship bias here. A lot of reddit posts (or HN posts for that matter) link to quality original content like yours, but never see the front page of any subreddit. And because of duplicate link penalties or prohibition, you can't try again.<p>Submitting to reddit/HN when you launch a product is a decision you need to be careful with. You need to time it right to get enough upvotes, you need to target your audience, you need to be ready to handle the traffic, and your product needs to be in a state that's ready for criticism.<p>This is an encouraging story, but to others out there: be careful! In the words of Eminem, "you only get one shot."<p>(Of course there are a million other ways to promote other than "Show HN" or reddit posts.)
Congratulations on your game's success.<p>I use reddit a lot to promote my blog posts but I've realized what @chatmasta mentioned to be true.<p>If you want to publicize your startup or project on launch day, its better to get it published on some famous blog for that stream.<p>Need not necessarily be techcrunch or mashable. Can also be CSS tricks or Paul Irish's blog. Equally valuable. And the HN / Reddit takes care of itself.<p>Sauce: <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/open-source-marketing-with-velocityjs/" rel="nofollow">https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/open-source-marketing-with...</a>