Promote Your Next Startup

Free web-resources you may want to use to promote your next startup.

The main advertisement channel is of course people who are in love with your product. Their sharing activities is the best advertisement. Thus, the main idea is to create the product that is useful, usable and attractive to the end users. And only after that it does make sense to spread the word about something you've done.

Post News

Link About reddit.com The front-page of the internet news.ycombinator.com Hacker news lobste.rs Lobsters facebook.com Post news to your niche groups twitter.com Of course slashdot.org News for nerds raddle.me News feed designernews.co Designer news datatau.net DataTau - Data Science Newsboard devrant.com A fun community of developers sidebar.io The five best design links, every weekday changelog.com News and podcasts for developers

Create a Product Page

Link About producthunt.com The best new products in tech saashub.com SaaSHub - Software alternatives and reviews angel.co Where the world meets startups alternativeto.net Crowd-sourced software recommendations indiehackers.com Indie Hackers

Post an Article

Link About medium.com Read, write and share stories that matter linkedin.com People and companies that are posting and looking for job. Post to your niche groups as well. dev.to The DEV community dzone.com Programming news, tutorials and tools scotch.io Top shelf web-development training habr.com Russian tech-blog hashnode.com The Dev community dou.ua Ukrainian developers community muckrack.com MuckRack for journalist and public relations techhype.io News, articles and tools for developers towardsdatascience.com Towards Data Science python.libhunt.com Awesome Python LibHunt vas3k.club Вастрик.Клуб codementor.io CodeMentor Community kdnuggets.com KDNuggets morioh.com Social network for programmers and developers hackernoon.com Hacker Noon blogger.com Blogging platform hackr.io The list of programming classes and tutorials javascriptkicks.com JavaScript Kicks smashingmagazine.com For web designers and developers forum.freecodecamp.org The Free Code Camp Forum

Niche Platforms

Here are some niche blogs which you may use to find your target audience.

Link About geeksforgeeks.org A computer science portal for geeks codeforces.com Programming contests platform kaggle.com Your home for datascience

Write for News Blog

Link About medium.com/dailyjs Daily JS news itnext.io IT blog alistapart.com For people who make web-sites thenextweb.com Web news developer-tech.com Developer tech news programmableweb.com APIs, mashups and the Web as a platform hakin9.com Blog of IT security magazine datacamp.com Data Science Online News echojs.com JavaScript News css-tricks.com CSS Tricks daily.dev/blog Daily Dev Blog

Answer Questions

Link About stackoverflow.com Where developers learn, share and build careers quora.com A place to share knowledge and better understand the world

Write on Forums

Link About techrepublic.com Community of IT experts sitepoint.com Sitepoint forums

Write to Dev-Chats

Don't spam!

If you think your project is useful for some specific group of people then find targeted channel, read about channel rules and only then post information to channel.

Link About gitter.im Where developers come to talk

Record a video

Record a demo video of your product, or some learning content and upload it to your YouTube channel. Put the link to the product or to the content to the video description.

Link About youtube.com Video platform

Become Awesome

If you find your project to be related to one of the awesome partitions then just go ahead and create pull request to add your product to the list.

Link About github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness A curated list of awesome awesomeness

Use Advanced Google Search Techniques

Google supports powerful search techniques that may help you to promote your resource.

Find sites linking to competitors

Find sites linking to your competitors and try to add your link to that web-sites as well.

Google’s link: operator was officially deprecated in 2017. But it does still return some results.

It might be a good idea to exclude competitor web-site itself from the search results by using the site: operator to avoid displaying of internal links

Do the following Google search but with you competitor's URL:

link:https://competitor-domain.com/blog -site:competitor-domain.com

Find guest post opportunities

This allows you to find web-sites where you might submit the article about your new project/product/startup.

Pick your niche keyword (i.e. programming) and Google search for guest post related phrases like so:

programming intitle:"write for us" inurl:"write-for-us"

You can also use other phrases like:

• contribute to
• become a contributor
• guest post guidelines
• inurl:guest-post

You can also search for many of these at once:

programming ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines" | inurl:"guest-post")

Or even:

(programming | machine learning) AND ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines")

Find resource page opportunities

Resource pages contains the links to best resources on specific topic.

It might be a good idea to pitch your resource for inclusion.

To find resource pages you might do the following Google search:

programming (intitle:"resources" | inurl:resources)

Or you might narrow it down to:

intitle:programming AND intitle:resources AND inurl:resources

Find more related resource

Once you found a good web-site to place a link to you might want to find similar relevant resources.

To do so just do the following Google search but with the resource you're interested in:

related:https://news.ycombinator.com

Register in Startup Directories

Link About betalist.com Discover and get early access to tomorrow's startup startuptabs.com Startup discovery engine crunchbase.com Discover innovative companies and the people behind them geekwire.com Breaking news in technology in business f6s.com Startup founder deals and accelerators killerstartups.com Where internet entrepreneurs are the stars startupbuffer.com Promote your startup and discover new startups allstartups.info All startups info betapage.co Community of tech lovers and early adopters index.co Connecting startups, corporate brands, and investors gust.com Startup funding and investing startupproject.org The startup project springwise.com Discovering innovation launchlister.com See the day's hottest product launches vator.tv Voice of the entrepreneur nextbigwhat.com Discover great products iamwire.com A digital incubator & network for technology ecosystem snapmunk.com Technology trends and startup culture nibletz.com The voice of the startups startupstash.com Curated resources and tools for startups alltopstartups.com All top startups startupdope.com Startup Dope techpluto.com Platform to showcase innovative startups and tech news thestartuppitch.com Come pitch your startup to the world sideprojectors.com Marketplace to buy and sell side projects launchingnext.com New startups and ideas startupranking.com New startups and ideas

Other suggestions

• Use findareddit.com to find relevant subreddits for your niche

Depending on the subject of your post you may use the targeted subreddits: