[tmoravec]

Why do you think that my _particular_ audience frequents either of these directories? Entrepreneurs should go after their customers, first and foremost. Submitting to irrelevant directories is not only lost time. It's dangerous because it suggests that we are doing something useful and that we don't have to chase the real audience anymore.

[pmiri]

I'm always wary of startup founders sharing startup launches to each other. Big red flag. Completely skews all advice/critique/reception.

[mkirklions]

Yep, I posted my website asking for critique, half the users were complaining about my 4s load time and didnt mention a thing about the information presented.

Thousands of people use my website a week, apparently they dont care about 4s load times.

My actual audience has bothered me to create more content more frequently.

[p0nce]

Only on HN I heard that my products were ugly. None of thousands of users ever reported that.

[davidw]

Yep: I have a side project that I used stock bootstrap with. People on HN invariably complain about that. Actual users? Not one, ever.

[JOnAgain]

Except when we're the target market.

[TomK32]

I'm fine with others doing it so I can have a better picture of the competition in the personal finance sector that I'm developing an app for.

[Alex3917]

There's something to be said for having a product that's stable and bug-free. If the first person to use your product does so in the middle of your first enterprise sale, it's probably not going to go very well.

[jsonne]

If it's B2C and you're going after affluent tech early adopters the folks that frequent these galleries likely are your target market.