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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...

Posted 7th January 2013 at 6:03 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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