How do I jump start a submissions-based website?
7th January 2013
My answer to How do I jump start a submissions-based website? on Quora
Post a lot of stuff yourself. Get some friends to post stuff too.
Or be a bit sneaky about it: Reddit famously bootstrapped their site using fake accounts: http://www.geekosystem.com/reddi...
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