Ask HN: How could a startup stand a chance when Reddit won't even let you post?
3•SecureChats•1h ago
TLDR; spent half year building a product and launching it and tried to just post a white paper here on HN and reddit to get some feedback: instant ban for self promotion. From what I've seen, it is not even clear that humans are involved in this process. So how should I proceed? Start paying for ads?
Comments
jerrycat101•1h ago
You have to slowly engage with the community and use it or a regular but even then you are not supposed to self promote. What you can do is ask for peoples opinion of your app.
SecureChats•10m ago
It seems that there is no clear definition of what self promotion is. For example, sending the security and privacy white paper of my product to r/privacy and asking for feedback was seen as self promotion.
Messyflame•13m ago
Reddit is banning accounts so frequently. I would suggest avoid posting anything for the first week of account creation, and even when you post, do not add a link. unfortunately the only way for startups to promote themselves now is to do shadow marketing.
jerrycat101•1h ago
SecureChats•10m ago