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Generally, Hacker News can get you around 50,000 to 100,000 visitors, and 1,000 simultaneous real-time visitors. That's about 5x to 10x as big as Product Hunt, so make sure your server can handle it.
In general, being on top of Product Hunt will get you around 10,000 people visiting your site, with around 300 simultaneous users, with a percentage of those signing up.
If you're on the front page, you get from 50,000 to 500,000 visitors and 5,000 to 25,000 simultaneous users.
A very common subreddit that people who make little functional apps/sites use is: reddit.com/r/internetisbeautiful
BetaList has a strict curation of what they accept, and unless you pay ~$129, you're put on a waiting list for launch which takes 2 months. Therefore, you probably have to pay to go live immediaetly. Unlike the name BetaList suggest, startups don't have to be in beta anymore to featured. They do have to be new though.
being the first launch platform for apps like Pinterest. "BetaList is the place for early adopters to discover upcoming and recently launched internet startups"
Generally, BetaList can get you around 500 - 1000 visitors with a percentage of those signing up. It's a very targeted tech audience though, and helpful to get the early users in before you launch on bigger platforms.
The idea is that great things rise up by being rewarded for being great. You can't force traction. Well, you can. For a little while. But all those people you forced to share your product won't