Promote Your Next Startup

Free web-resources you may want to use to promote your next startup.

The main advertisement channel is of course people who are in love with your product. Their sharing activities is the best advertisement. Thus the main idea is to create the product that is useful, usable and attractive to the end users. And only after that it does make sense to spread the word about something you've done.

Post News

Link	About
reddit.com	The front-page of the internet
news.ycombinator.com	Hacker news
lobste.rs	Lobsters
facebook.com	Post news to your niche groups
twitter.com	Of course
thetechladder.com	Trending tech news
slashdot.org	News for nerds
raddle.me	News feed
designernews.co	Designer news

Create Product Page

Link	About
producthunt.com	The best new products in tech
angel.co	Where the world meets startups
alternativeto.net	Crowd-sourced software recommendations

Post an Article

Link	About
medium.com	Read, write and share stories that matter
linkedin.com	People and companies that are posting and looking for job. Post to your niche groups as well.
dev.to	The DEV community
dzone.com	Programming news, tutorials and tools
scotch.io	Top shelf web-development training
habr.com	Russian tech-blog
hashnode.com	The Dev community
dou.ua	Ukrainian developers community
muckrack.com	MuckRack for journalist and public relations
techhype.io	News, articles and tools for developers

Niche Blogs

These blogs depends are not that universal but more niche one where you may find your target audience.

Link	About
geeksforgeeks.org	A computer science portal for geeks
codeforces.com	Programming contests platform

Write for News Blog

Link	About
medium.com/dailyjs	Daily JS news
itnext.io	IT blog
alistapart.com	For people who make web-sites
thenextweb.com	Web news
developer-tech.com	Developer tech news
programmableweb.com	APIs, mashups and the Web as a platform
hakin9.com	Blog of IT security magazine
datacamp.com	Data Science Online News
echojs.com	JavaScript News
css-tricks.com	CSS Tricks

Answer Questions

Link	About
stackoverflow.com	Where developers learn, share and build careers
quora.com	A place to share knowledge and better understand the world

Write on Forums

Link	About
techrepublic.com	Community of IT experts
sitepoint.com	Sitepoint forums

Write to Dev-Chats

Don't spam!

If you think your project is useful for some specific group of people then find targeted channel, read about channel rules and only then post information to channel.

Link	About
gitter.im	Where developers come to talk

Become Awesome

If you find your project to be related to one of the awesome partitions then just go ahead and create pull request to add your product to the list.

Link	About
github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness	A curated list of awesome awesomeness

Use Advanced Google Search Techniques

Google supports powerful search techniques that may help you to promote your resource.

Find sites linking to competitors

Find sites linking to your competitors and try to add your link to that web-sites as well.

Google’s link: operator was officially deprecated in 2017. But it does still return some results.

It might be a good idea to exclude competitor web-site itself from the search results by using the site: operator to avoid displaying of internal links

Do the following Google search but with you competitor's URL:

link:https://competitor-domain.com/blog -site:competitor-domain.com

Find guest post opportunities

This allows you to find web-sites where you might submit the article about your new project/product/startup.

Pick your niche keyword (i.e. programming) and Google search for guest post related phrases like so:

programming intitle:"write for us" inurl:"write-for-us"

You can also use other phrases like:

• contribute to
• become a contributor
• guest post guidelines
• inurl:guest-post
• etc.

You can also search for many of these at once:

programming ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines" | inurl:"guest-post")

Or even:

(programming | machine learning) AND ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines")

Find resource page opportunities

Resource pages contains the links to best resources on specific topic.

It might be a good idea to pitch your resource for inclusion.

To find resource pages you might do the following Google search:

programming (intitle:"resources" | inurl:resources)

Or you might narrow it down to:

intitle:programming AND intitle:resources AND inurl:resources

Find more related resource

Once you found a good web-site to place a link to you might want to find similar relevant resources.

To do so just do the following Google search but with the resource you're interested in:

related:https://news.ycombinator.com

Register in Startup Directories

Link	About
betalist.com	Discover and get early access to tomorrow's startup
startuptabs.com	Startup discovery engine
crunchbase.com	Discover innovative companies and the people behind them
geekwire.com	Breaking news in technology in business
f6s.com	Startup founder deals and accelerators
killerstartups.com	Where internet entrepreneurs are the stars
startupbuffer.com	Promote your startup and discover new startups
allstartups.info	All startups info
betapage.co	Community of tech lovers and early adopters
index.co	Connecting startups, corporate brands, and investors
gust.com	Startup funding and investing
startupproject.org	The startup project
springwise.com	Discovering innovation
launchlister.com	See the day's hottest product launches
vator.tv	Voice of the entrepreneur
nextbigwhat.com	Discover great products
iamwire.com	A digital incubator & network for technology ecosystem
snapmunk.com	Technology trends and startup culture
nibletz.com	The voice of the startups
startupstash.com	Curated resources and tools for startups
alltopstartups.com	All top startups
startupdope.com	Startup Dope
techpluto.com	Platform to showcase innovative startups and tech news
thestartuppitch.com	Come pitch your startup to the world
sideprojectors.com	Marketplace to buy and sell side projects
launchingnext.com	New startups and ideas
startupranking.com	New startups and ideas