Ask YC: What are the best ways to market bootstrapped apps?
recommended by 1 user | 2008 | 34 points by pjharrin | marketing | original thread |

What are the best ways to market bootstrapped apps? PPC is great because of the tracking but the costs add up very fast. Obviously approaching blogs/news sites/newspapers/magazines is a great way to get some PR, but what are some other ways?

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mdolon Dec 16, 2008 | on: Ask HN: Launching? | context

If your site is Stumble worthy, check out their advertising service @ http://www.stumbleupon.com/ads/. I've been using it for my flash games site with decent success so far and their rates seem pretty fair to me.

Also, take a look at the following two posts in which petercooper makes some great suggestions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=351709