I agree. For Strangers for Dinner, I started by doing a Show HN. It was riding on the hype of being an introvert at that point (lucky me), so it had a lot of sign ups but it went no where.
Which is why for Fork the Cookbook (http://forkthecookbook.com), I've yet to do a Show HN. We even went so far to prevent anyone in the team from calling it Github for recipes, even when Fork the Cookbook IS Github for recipes.
We prefer to focus on our core target market, and work from there. Haven't been very successful yet though. Our forking rates were higher than expected (85% of the people who sign up have forked a recipe), and from that 85%, only a handful (about 5 or so) were from HN. Thoughts and ideas would be very welcome
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I agree. For Strangers for Dinner, I started by doing a Show HN. It was riding on the hype of being an introvert at that point (lucky me), so it had a lot of sign ups but it went no where.
Which is why for Fork the Cookbook (http://forkthecookbook.com), I've yet to do a Show HN. We even went so far to prevent anyone in the team from calling it Github for recipes, even when Fork the Cookbook IS Github for recipes.
We prefer to focus on our core target market, and work from there. Haven't been very successful yet though. Our forking rates were higher than expected (85% of the people who sign up have forked a recipe), and from that 85%, only a handful (about 5 or so) were from HN. Thoughts and ideas would be very welcome