Ask HN: Is Emailing Journalists Useless?

1 pointTanishmittal3 comments

I mailed journalist about my MVP, most of the email never reached if some reached then they are asking money to write about it. What should I do? It is related to fintech so I need to gain people's trust.

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this is interesting stuff, and an art. like whats a journalists job, if you can tie your product to an "ongoing topic", thats a benefit, that helps them. Like as an answer to something someone already has written that week. lets say someone writes about "kids having too much screentime" and you can write a follow up being: no its actually fine, at least with this app.

but yeah, its a fine line, cant be too salesy, and you should have something real to contribute with

Sounds like you should ask yourself what you would do if you were in their shoes, and a random person reached out to you about their MVP.

:D great advice actually!

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