convore.json/groups/hacker-news/how-do-you-get-traction-for-your-new-app-or-website/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1040, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301990188.1561439, "message": "I'm assuming sites like TechCrunch and RWW are inundated with pitches + focus pretty heavily on current tech news (Facebook, Quora etc) as opposed to upcoming startups or apps (unless they're backed by some powerful names e.g. Color)", "group_id": 95, "id": 538243}, {"user_id": 1040, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301990221.230828, "message": "So what other approaches have you guys used to get some traction?", "group_id": 95, "id": 538252}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301991277.607955, "message": "Obviously, it's not simple... :D", "group_id": 95, "id": 538574}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301991250.192136, "message": "Participate to conferences", "group_id": 95, "id": 538554}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301991258.855778, "message": "Try to expose yourself", "group_id": 95, "id": 538559}, {"user_id": 1040, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301991385.7856691, "message": "Not at all :) I was also wondering if being persistent might come across negatively as spamming (obviously a fine line there!). So it'll help to hear from those who've gotten reasonable traction (10k as you had mentioned, perhaps more) on the steps they took", "group_id": 95, "id": 538622}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301991224.132148, "message": "The problem is always get the first X users (my case 10.000). Before that step probably very few blogs will talk about you. Start creating a \"Press kit pack\" (there's a conversation in Convore about that) and contact the beta list beasites, such as http://betali.st", "group_id": 95, "id": 538545}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301991244.9596021, "message": "Talk in where your target users are (forum or similar)", "group_id": 95, "id": 538552}, {"user_id": 26035, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1301999587.6762841, "message": "I'd first concentrate on building something awesome. Then just work your ass off. I don't think one thing can be said that will work for everyone.", "group_id": 95, "id": 539703}, {"user_id": 27319, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302001706.0244911, "message": "Start with smaller blogs...I just wrote a post about it actually, that detailed some of the stats from two guest posts I did - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2410444  Let me know if you have any questions.", "group_id": 95, "id": 539790}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302030378.2338309, "message": "@bvi check out HTTP://loudstartup.com (my site) - it's a long, curated list of sites that do tech blogging.", "group_id": 95, "id": 544865}, {"user_id": 5369, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302121891.5281079, "message": "the link was just messed up, his site does work: http://loudstartup.com/", "group_id": 95, "id": 564991}, {"user_id": 1040, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302121655.2279999, "message": "@bmelton, your site is not up", "group_id": 95, "id": 564948}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302122893.4606559, "message": "Just today I've read that article. It's really interesting, also if maybe a step further yours \"How to Communicate Traction... by Brendan Baker\" http://ow.ly/4u8S2", "group_id": 95, "id": 565114}, {"user_id": 1040, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302124456.885344, "message": "@bmelton, no worries. That's a really good list! Thanks.", "group_id": 95, "id": 565348}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302124569.847059, "message": "It aims to be exhaustive, and have every press source known to man.  At some point, I'll categorize and offer sort options and the sort, but that's my \"Don't have anything better to do\" project, and right now, I have LOTS better to do.", "group_id": 95, "id": 565371}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302123650.9952819, "message": "Oops.  Sorry, that's what I get trying to post from the phone.  Apologies @bvi", "group_id": 95, "id": 565225}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 17348, "date_created": 1302124576.3669119, "message": "And thanks!", "group_id": 95, "id": 565372}]