Show HN: Postmake – A directory of tools and resources for your projects
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I did hate the fact that I can only sign up with Twitter (or I missed a normal signup?). I also would love a way to bookmark and/or create lists for myself.
There's so much content that having a simple "check out later" button would be a big time saver for me.
The idea behind sign-ups was so that users would upvote and leave reviews. I needed something that's associated with a "public" identity. I'm still toying with this honestly.
Re the check out later button – what did you have in mind, outside signing up for the newsletter?
Really not something I can't do with a list of my own, but I'd love having it easy to use on the site.
The signup is sad because I don't use social media, so I hate when sites alienate me.
What an interesting concept. I wonder how the site generates traffic outside this one-time HN submission, and maybe some traffic from Product Hunt. There are a million sites competing for these same keywords (based on what's said in the Submit section), so I can't imagine Postmake getting anywhere far any time soon. Further, makes me wonder how much of that $100 goes towards marketing the site.
This is an idea I've been toying with for the past year, and only recently decided to take it a little more seriously. Like you said there are a ton of similar lists, and it seems that every week a new comes along.
My issue with most of these is that they seem to be one time flings. Someone gathers all these great resources, compiles into a site, submits them to a couple of websites to drive some traffic, and that's the end of that.
The thing is, lists like these usually get huge amounts of love because they're really helpful, and it's a shame they just die after a little amount of fame. So I decided I would focus on monetizing this from the get-go – if I'm going to build something that's sustainable, it'll need to be self-sustaining at least. I tried to keep the directory's presentation simple, only listing the important stuff (pricing, category, an overview, and outbound links), and categorizing them by tags. I think the homepage's timeline turned out to be a nice way of presenting the tools.
As for marketing, outside of submitting the list to HN / etc, so far I've focused on reaching out to the businesses I list in the directory with help in spreading the word. The idea is if they can promote the directory/sponsor the website, they'd be driving traffic to their businesses. Getting them to agree from the get-go with nothing to show for in terms of traffic is stuff, which is I seeded the directory with most of the tools you see.
I talk a lot more about this on the website: https://postmake.io/faq. I hope that made sense!
Its more convincing than paying $100 alone with the hopes of getting exposure.