Hacker News with Generative AI: Marketing

You’re a little company, now act like one (2009) (asmartbear.com)
You’re afraid that looking like being a small company means you’ll lose sales. It’s actually the opposite – you’re alienating your best customers.

Business, Marketing, Startups

299 points by tosh 34 days ago | 63 comments

Horizon Drive: The Shopify Edition (shopify.com)
Summer ’25 edition

Shopify, E-commerce, Business, Marketing

12 points by sss111 36 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: I created an tool that creates interactive product demos in 2 minutes (snapdemo.io)
Snapdemo helps marketing, sales and development teams create interactive demos, together.

Software, Marketing, Sales, Product Development, Tools

58 points by timczm 36 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: How do you promote your personal projects with a limited budget? (ycombinator.com)

Marketing, Personal Projects, Budgets, Entrepreneurship, Startups

132 points by javafactory 37 days ago | 91 comments

Stop Calling Everything a Painkiller (0toreal.com)
Stop Calling Everything a Painkiller (Your product isn’t Tylenol — and that’s okay)

Marketing, Branding, Product Development

4 points by nullhabit 38 days ago | 0 comments

Astroturfing (wikipedia.org)
Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization (e.g., political, economic, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, unsolicited grassroots participants.

Deception, Public Relations, Marketing, Social Engineering, Political Campaigns

7 points by cl3misch 39 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: I built an AI sales agent that writes and sends cold emails for you (elevatesells.com)
Tired of sending cold emails and getting ghosted? Let your AI sales agent find leads, write 1:1 personalized cold emails at scale, and follow up—so you can close more deals without the manual grind.

Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Automation, Marketing

6 points by OutboundWizard 41 days ago | 10 comments

How startups build trust (191 examples) (socialproofexamples.com)
Disover strategies to build trust, drive conversions, and grow your brand.

Startups, Trust, Business, Marketing

6 points by carouselhero 41 days ago | 1 comments

Spent weeks building, not marketing (ycombinator.com)

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

9 points by kmaticu 41 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Litelytics – A nice GA4 dashboard (better Looker Studio) (litelytics.io)
A user-friendly interface that makes Google Analytics 4 easy to navigate and understand. No setup required, just login and start exploring your data.

Google Analytics, Data Visualization, Web Analytics, Marketing

9 points by tesfaX 45 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? (ycombinator.com)
I am building a B2C AI SaaS with $50/month price. How would you go about getting with first 100 users and then the next 500 users.

Startups, User Acquisition, SaaS, Marketing, AI

573 points by amanchanda 46 days ago | 354 comments

For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

Marketing, Pricing, Technology History

250 points by indigodaddy 48 days ago | 148 comments

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools (theorthagonist.substack.com)
Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor.

Business, Books, Marketing, Strategy

593 points by ZeroTalent 49 days ago | 255 comments

Show HN: Built QR-code SaaS with 30% recurring commission-open to early partners (qrcodeveloper.com)

Software, SaaS, Marketing, Business, Startups

5 points by 0xgautam 49 days ago | 0 comments

Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions (psu.edu)
The hospitality industry can leverage the gender characteristics of service robots to influence customers’ decisions, according to new research from a team in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.

Robotics, Hospitality, Customer Behavior, Marketing, Gender Studies

11 points by gnabgib 50 days ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: How do you obtain software development contracts? (ycombinator.com)
Let's say you have a software development firm. You have some sales/marketing people and you have some developers. How do the sales and marketing people obtain projects for the developers to work on?

Software Development, Business, Marketing, Sales

31 points by codingclaws 51 days ago | 17 comments

Reaction to the Dec Spam of 1978 (templetons.com)
Possibly the first spam ever was a message from a DEC marketing rep to every Arpanet address on the west coast, or at least the attempt at that.

Spam, Marketing, History, Technology, Computer Science

6 points by dustincoates 55 days ago | 0 comments

$100K in 48 Hours: Inside Osmo's Membership Site Launch (youtube.com)

Membership Sites, Business, Marketing, Case Studies, Success Stories

4 points by raae 57 days ago | 1 comments

Is outbound going to die? (rnikhil.com)
I see a ton of sales/marketing products all powered by AI, making hyper personalised content to target potential users and customers.

Sales, Marketing, AI, Content Marketing

129 points by whoami_nr 60 days ago | 116 comments

Show HN: I made a one-click AI ad creator for products (admuseai.com)
Upload your product, add a prompt, and get professional-quality ad creatives instantly. No login required.

Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Tools, Marketing

5 points by shraey96 61 days ago | 7 comments

You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business (goodenough.us)
For your small business to survive, you need customers. Not just to buy once. You need them to come back, tell their friends, and trust you over time. And yet, too many small businesses make it weirdly hard to talk to them.

Small Business, Customer Retention, Marketing

43 points by bjhess 64 days ago | 51 comments

Business Cards (kolyder.com)
Business is war. Your career is a battlefield.

Business, Career, Marketing

29 points by kolyder 67 days ago | 7 comments

AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5% (ahrefs.com)

AI, Marketing, Web Analytics

30 points by geox 68 days ago | 2 comments

CXL and the Fawkes Principle: How to burst into flames and be reborn (medium.com)
RAS, short for Reliability, Availability and Serviceability is a key pillar of any infrastructure solution in the enterprise space.

Marketing, Business, Strategy, Growth Hacking, Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)

4 points by tanelpoder 70 days ago | 0 comments

AI hype is drowning in slopaganda (ft.com)
AI hype is drowning in slopaganda

Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Media

40 points by Bluestein 71 days ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Landing Lab – A growing collection of landing page templates (landinglab.xyz)
Landing Lab provides professional landing pages for your business.

Web Development, Templates, Marketing, Business

7 points by drdruide 72 days ago | 7 comments

We bought billboards in San Francisco, for our open source product (typesense.org)
Decades later… I am ecstatic to announce that Typesense has joined this iconic club of tech companies that do billboards in San Francisco.

Open Source, Marketing, San Francisco, Technology

4 points by karterk 73 days ago | 1 comments

WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots (botmetr.com)

Chatbots, AI, Marketing, Rewards

9 points by andyolivers 76 days ago | 23 comments

.so .sh TLD for startups – pros and cons? (ycombinator.com)
Almost every tld is unavailable and I increasingly see more and more .so and .sh - but wondering if they are market as spam or neglected by prospects more.

Domain Names, Startups, Marketing

6 points by Codespoon 76 days ago | 8 comments

Perfume brands fighting a 'lost cause' against cheap dupes, say lawyers (theguardian.com)
Luxury companies need greater protection from imitators gaining the approval of social media influencers, as trademarking scent is almost impossible, experts say

Law, Business, Marketing, Social Media, Luxury Goods

11 points by n1b0m 76 days ago | 4 comments