Depends on which country you are targeting.
In India, it's just that you step in and ask for the manager. Pitch and get their card/number to followup. You also make sure to leave your card and may be a brochure.
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I'm the founder/ceo of this. We launched in beta around a month ago. Looking to know the views of HN community.
Yes, I remember reading that blog post. Couldn't find the link now. The author tried explaining various types of switches and provided best alternatives - one among those is having a hole in the switch. One more is having a 'push' effect on the switch.
Hi, I went through the site.
How do you plan to get early adopters who stick on to the site and do reviews? Unless each post gets 2 reviewers, it doesn't ? What 'benefit' does the reviewers get?
Be niche specific. At this moment I do not think that a social network targeting all genres and geolocations can hardly become a hit unless you have resources and brand name, say Google.
I really like the idea that you targeted book readers and authors. As you found that Scribd works on almost similar lines of what your idea was, look at the points where you think Scribd has to improve. Features that you would like in such a service.
If I were you, I would look at possibilities of coming up with a service that people think is better than the existing one or that solves a problem which the current ones fail at.
"Necessity is the mother of Invention".
Do a your target users really need an alternative to Scribd ? We do not need another facebook. Not another gmail.
Instead, see how you can make use of the existing platforms to improve or bring traction to your product or idea.
Believe in your idea and set a goal. Target a specific group of people, pitch your product and if they like it, it spreads for itself. People might call it another Scribd. But, there are still millions who haven't heard about Scribd. They are your first customers.
I registered yesterday and came to know about it immediately about what he up arrows are. Anyone who's familiar with discussion forums can get it in a while I guess.
But, sure, I think HN should have given a note of this.
Using Alt text is a good idea to keep the space clean and unintuitive.