| Some things I've learned in the last month of promoting my app: HN gave me a wide variety of feedback, some of it really excellent. Try posting a "Ask HN: Please review my startup vivekjishtu.com" or whatever. Launchly is awesome but doesn't have a lot of eyes yet. Do post there, though, you'll get some great feedback. Usefultools gave me a tiny little bit of a review, but mostly just regurgitated my copy. They yielded a good bit of traffic, though. My best review thus far was from a random blogger who had reviewed a competitor. I sent him a personal email saying "Hi, I'm impressed with your candor and feedback, would you please review my site? Here's a promotional premium account." Also, hang around Launchly or HN for a while (I see you just signed up for HN) and give other people feedback. Both have reputation systems. You might even have luck giving other people serious feedback and tacking onto the bottom "if you have a moment to spare, could you give me some feedback on three-year-project.com" However, in terms of long-term recurring members, I can't say any of those paths have yielded much. This might be more a reflection of my service than the nature of the promotional channels, however. |
It took quite a bit of work for me to make all the necessary changes to get that reputation system in place last week and I really hope it has the positive effect that I think it will. Hopefully the amount of feedback will start creeping up.
Also note that registered users can provide additional profile details now on launchly such as a bio and link to a website. This is another possible way to promote your own startup by giving quality feedback to other startups. If people view your profile (either from your feedback or the leaderboard) they may just click through to your site/service!