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by alexeichemenda 4366 days ago
You have to create the content by yourself. No user is going to create your content magically on an empty site. So build your content (it will be a rather long process), and then it will (not organically) generate interest.

Also, target your friends / people you know that could use your website, and ask them which content they would like to see, if they want to help you build the initial content.

What's your website ?

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This is what I had to do with http://www.cocoacontrols.com for about six months before I had enough UGC for it to be sustainable.

Finding acceptable repos on GitHub, downloading them, running the projects in the iOS simulator, screenshotting them, and writing up a description took a significant amount of time.

What is UGC?
user generated content.
Ahhh cool. Thanks
Thats what I have been doing with my current website. It is a website for links for Swift. I have 300-500 daily visitors but haven't seen a large uptick in traction. Right now i easily have the largest collection of swift tutorials and references and my plan is to just stay the course and continue to build my repository. My hope is that there will come a tipping point in user traction during this growing of the repository of links. But thats just my theory. :)