Ask HN: How to reach out to hackers and CS students in India and Brazil?

9 points by tzgur8 10 years ago | 15 comments

Building a new product for hackers & CS students and need beta testers.

We got some US users. However, we also want to see how users from other large non-US hacker communities, such as India and Brazil, interact with the product. Any idea or info about online communities, forums, Facebook groups etc will help.

Thank you!

starlord 10 years ago |

One good way to start would be to add the url/details in this post as well. Next, as suggested in other comments Reddit is nice, then Quora is also big hangout for many of your target audience (at least in India). Would probably need more details on the product to suggest anything more specific. If you are willing to spend some money, make a fb page and get some fb ads with product details, beta tester incentives and target to specific universities/colleges/companies perhaps...

lnk2w 10 years ago |

You can try to reach the usergroups we have here. Like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ruby-sp is the official group of Ruby Developers in São Paulo. You can also look for public universities, here in Brazil they have the best courses of CS and IT related in the country.

akshat_h 10 years ago |

Post the link here as well. Some students from India/Brazil and other countries would be reading hackernews as well and can spread the word. As others have suggested, try posting in reddit groups as well.

maha_funk 10 years ago |

Sites like this work fine. Also a post to /r/programming or /r/India /r/Brazil would work.

Btw, what is your product ?

nautical 10 years ago |

Indian Myself : HN , Product Hunt , Quora are 3 imp places . hasjob.co is another platform check out if it fits your need .

rapphil 10 years ago |

You could look for top universities in Brazil and India in google, and then look for Facebook and Linkedin communities among those universities. After that you can post a message in those communities looking for beta testers.

arkj 10 years ago |

you can ask here on this HN clone <http://hackerstreet.in> too

pramodliv1 10 years ago |

Quora is popular among Indian CS students.

tzgur8 10 years ago | |

Thanks! That sounds good, but what should I ask besides putting the site and pitch it?

nphyte 10 years ago |

look up universities that offer cs there , and then find fb groups of those universities using fb graph search

amjd 10 years ago |

Reddit is a good place as already suggested by someone.

Also, I'm an Indian CS student. PM me if I can help.

vishalzone2002 10 years ago |

how and where did you get your US users? I wonder why would that channel not work for other hacker/cs people. programmer is a community of its own powered by internet so i would guess they would all use the same channel?. like stack overflow, etc.

rajdroid 10 years ago |

I think HN is good but everybody doesn't use it at least in North India.

motyar 10 years ago |

Why dont just ask them here.. Many of them are on HN.

bra-ket 10 years ago |

elance, freelancer etc. hire them as beta testers.