The many ways you can promote your product on Hacker News

Hopefully I’ve managed to convince you with my previous post why you should try to market your tech startup on Hacker News. The next question is - how?

While the platform gives no preference to either of the two, I personally think the 2nd one increases your chances of making it on the front page. This is because users tend to check posts with comments more often.

You must follow some official rules when making such a post. There are also plenty of unoficial guides online on what makes a post go viral - Google is your friend. I’d encourage you to read these resources before you post as you’re only allowed to submit it once.

You can set up a blog site associated with your business and share every post you write on Hacker News. Again, there are some guidelines you must follow.

I mentioned that you can only make a single Show HN post about your business. One way to get around this is to submit a product/service that’s related to your main product. Take this post for example:

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