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Ask HN: How do you promote your product outside of Reddit, HN, PH, and IH?

by j-rom on 11/5/23, 7:08 PM with 9 comments

Context: I have built a free web game that has a small, yet stable group of users that plays it daily. This was mostly through word-of-mouth. I posted on Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers but those didn't really yield a significant change in traffic or users.

Is the only remaining option for growth to spend money on ads?

  • by az09mugen on 11/5/23, 7:16 PM

    I never tried, but I read/heard FB, Xitter and YT also could help spread the word. But it implies you to be active in the community, by posting updates, fixes, news et al about your game constantly, and keeping people updated.

  • by ac2u on 11/5/23, 9:08 PM

    Get a few streamers that have an audience to play it.

  • by kamphey on 11/5/23, 7:32 PM

    I do a lot of content: YouTube, TikTok, Udemy, which all have their own algos and search functionality.

    ...and Blogs ( which is picked up via Google Search)

  • by harry247 on 11/5/23, 8:01 PM

    Another way someone told me is to promote things in the forum comments, like this website I hosted using esp32. I am posting here: https://esp.khalsalabs.com

    For few days I will test commenting method (until this goes down due to traffic flood)