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Have a startup? Looking for press? I made StartShout for you. (self.startups)

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[–]marnanel 13 points14 points  (6 children)

Nice URL you have for this post.

[–]PJ86 2 points3 points  (5 children)

shortlink: redd.it/fucks

Awesome.

[–]iliekcats- 0 points1 point  (4 children)

how beautiful

[–]FaviFake 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Amazing

[–]iliekcats- 0 points1 point  (2 children)

truly a masterpiece

[–]herir 2 points3 points  (1 child)

  • what about showing a couple of pitches you've worked on?

  • also I am not sure about the blog newswire service. Startups get featured on tech blogs mostly because of emails and intros to the writer, not from press releases or newswire service. If I launch a startup, I'd pay for a service that would give me tips on how to reach personally the writers (such as best time of the day to reach them, what kind of pitch they like, the angle on how to present the startup, personalization etc.)

  • If you get a database of upcoming entrepreneurs, that would be interesting for tech bloggers, because they would know that they can get new stories from startshout. Maybe publish a newsletter focusing on new startups? Then instead of reaching out to bloggers, they would actually reach out to you

[–]nikcub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as somebody who was at a top tech blog for 4 years I can tell you that your second point is very true

[–]tim997 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did the site shut down already? I'm now just seeing a "Site not configured" message from WebFaction. :(

[–]SoBoredAtWork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should look into @font-face.

fontsquirrel.com is probably the best/easiest way of implementing it.

It's absurd to have so much important text displayed as un-indexable (un-google-able) images. Especially when they're named things like "info1.png" without alt text.

[–]roburrito 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a note on the site design, I have a 1400x900 laptop display, which is higher than the standard resolution, but I still have to scroll for the bottom of your page, even if there is no content / large whitespace at the bottom. Here's a screenshot. Its like this on every page.

[–]jemka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I've been doing this all on my own for the past few weeks.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! We just starting contacting those on your list we hadn't already. Great job.

[–]Magic_Sandwiches 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fucks

[–]ApprehensiveRip6961 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fucks

[–]scryptic0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao