Ask HN: Where to put links of your Minimum viable product?

I'm working on a little community where people with projects and mvp's can showcase their links, progress, mix with others working in their space.

There would also be a lot of opportunity for people to test each others projects so it could be really useful.

There will also be regular blog articles looking at progressing products on the site & the achievements/challenges the team building it faces.

Hopefully the blog will be a good resource for early tech adopters to learn about new things to try and will be a good source of genuine users!

We've had quite a lot of interest so far, especially from teams that didn't make it to YC this cycle but are carrying on regardless.

If you think this would be interesting, let me know. Feedback on it would be appreciated and I can be sure to drop any of you a mail once it's time for folks to sign up!

You are over-thinking this. Seriously.

What does your product do?

Who needs it?

Let's say you product allows cats to tweet. Your customer would be cat owners that are tech oriented.

You think of ways to find this people. Hmmm... you could try youtube viral by doing a video of you cat Dr. Evil tweeting. Or you could go to the local pet shops and give a free "seminar" on how to teach your cat to tweet.

Point is that you need to get out there, outside of your comfort zone and sell the damn thing.

Good luck.

While you probably get a lot of traffic with HN and reddit it really depends on your product.

For example: if you build a managing app for landlords I doubt any of the sites you mentioned will bring you paying customers.

Maybe some people spread the word about your MVP but I'm not sure if a MVP has enough impact to make people spread the word.

Here and Reddit so far, though I really should investigate Pinterest more (I'm targeting families). Twitter has a really low pickup rate for me, probably because I'm not that popular. Facebook is a little better as friends are more easily blackmailed into testing things ;)

I'm interested in this too, Paskulin, perhaps we can swap notes? wahyu at symbol picocrew.com

adwords. just make sure you have a business plan.