Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by AznHisoka 5227 days ago
Some comments: 1) You really need to tell your visitors how you work. Sending gifts privately.. OK, that raises a lot of questions in my mind.. A graphic with step 1, 2, 3, 4 would help tremendously. When i visit now, I just see a bunch of gift ideas in the homepage, and think.. hmm.. I can buy these in Amazon, why shop here?

2) Don't have the mindset that if you don't get any traction in a few days, you're doomed. Doing this is a long, long road, a year.. 2 years minimum. Just keep plugging at it, and don't just try 1 thing. Don't just post in Ask HN and expect it to be enough. Pitch to bloggers, mention it in forums, mention it in real life, talk to journalists who wrote about similar ideas, keep writing articles for SEO, etc. Just keep doing all that, and be patient.

Go to Google Alerts, and set up an alert anytime a blogger talks about something that is relevant to your service. Then submit a comment, or email them telling them about your site, and see if they can review it.

1 comments

Yeah I really need to have a graphic explaining what we do and how it works, thanks for pointing it out. You are right I need to have patience and keep my spirits up and keep hoping that are better days ahead.

Thanks for your other suggestions as well, some very good ideas. I will follow up on those ideas and see how it pans out.