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Comment by SlyShy | Hacker News Reader

It's interesting that reddit provides both good numbers, in _addition_ to a number of hard to quantify but tangible benefits.

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I've got several ideas now on how to broadcast the availability of a side project to a wider audience once it's ready.

  HN
  Reddit Ad
  Craigslist
  Friends & Family

Other suggestions are welcome :) (Not the side project in my profile)

Some of my ideas from 2008 were quite popular here :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138

I would still recommend Twitter, Reddit, Delicious, and the like, but would also focus heavily on guest blogging nowadays - its effectiveness has been proven a lot in the last couple of years.

Where are the best places to guest blog?

Edit: for something for consumers that is broad-based, like a search engine.

That depends on what you're trying to promote. Your best bet is to find blogs ready by people who would use your service.

For example if you wanted to launch a site that listed the best places to rock climb, then you'd want to do some guest posts on popular rock climbing blogs.

I came across the site http://fiverr.com a few days ago. Under advertising there are several people selling tweets to however many followers they have for 5 bucks. There are also some other "creative" methods of advertisment available as well.

I have not used them yet but I'm planning on it. I'm not sure I have found the down side at 5 bucks.

The downside is that they're selling tweets -- you have to wonder about their followers.

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