I spent the holiday season to make a Youtube chapter generator. It automatically generates Youtube chapters for viewers and creators to save their time. And it's free.
Even it's just my passion project, I still want more people to use it. But the problem is I really suck at marketing products. Can anyone give me some suggestions on how I can promote it? Thank you very much.
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This is interesting. @brunor was asking about this when he was doing podcasts.
You need to find out some subreddits where youtubers actually come.
Also go to every youtube channel you're subscribed to and share the link there with a short, well formatted summary. I land on a lot of things from comments in youtube videos, so worth a shot.
Thanks for the suggestion, Shiv. Do you find it hard to make your comments surface in a high-traffic video? I did this before and found out it's quite hard for comments to rank high enough to be seen.
My comments barely scratch the surface. Sarcastic comments easily reach the top from my experience.
Haha I also have the same observation
Hey Vignes, thanks for mention.
Yeah, definitely there's a need for this
Regarding subreddits, I can suggest general ones for promoting your side projects. Probably there are some people who are doing YT videos as well. Not sure about YT oriented subreddits
@PassionDev Great idea, I'd like to see the success of this. I've tested it with one of my videos and here's my feedback
I would suggest you to talk with YT content creators and see their pains in creating chapter descriptions. Approach ppl who you follow and ask them about their experience
a) if they put it, what's the main pain they have
b) if they don't have it, ask them what's stopping them from having it
When you get enough pain points, implement the solution for most recurring one and then you have something to offer, something to promote.
Hi Brunor, thanks for the great ideas. And the subreddits suggestions are really helpful. Might I ask how long the video that has 75 chapters is? I would like to know what the ideal length for one chapter is.
As for the editing mode, I thought about it but it's quite intimidating to build one from scratch. Maybe I need to start with what component of editing can add value for the user in this case.
If I want to approach YouTube creator to ask the last two questions you mention, any good suggestions? Because contact youtubers via comments directly might be a bit hard. What I can think of now is YouTube subreddits.
You can find youtubers in twitter and reply in their tweet or DM.
We don't have a youtuber's Bar yet, that's much needed :D
I see. Thank you very much, Shiv
Reddit/Indie Hackers/HN?
I will probably true HN tomorrow. As for reddit, I don't know where I should post as most subreddits have very strict rules of posting such things. I only posted on one subreddit so far.
Hey Thinking Electrons, I am looking and building and marketing this product. Would love your insight into how you did it and what were some challenges you had. Email me - maestruong@gmail.com
@PassionDev Hi, hope you are doing great. Are you looking for a marketing expert to help you. Thank you.