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Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?

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Hello there!

I want to collect websites where I can feature (list) my SaaS-startup for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French speaking audience. I know that there're a lot of listing's set for English speaking but I haven't met for Spanish, Portuguese, German and French.

If you know some that websites, please, write it in the comments. I'll put it together in a single list and then post it here.

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My readlist in French is https://www.journalduhacker.net/ , as suggested in another comment, and https://linuxfr.org/, covering open source, if it applies to your product. Then Hackernews, but you are already here. Appart from that, it depends on your product. You will need to communicate through the niche channels your SaaS is adressing (aka woodworking channels for a woodworking Saas, etc ...)

I think about some lists like this https://www.submitjuice.com/directories but not only for English-speaking audience.

May be some UGC-based websites like vc.ru for Russian-speaking.

Biggest IT news site in Germany is heise.de, they also have a catalogue with software and service providers - you can contact their team at software@heise.de (if it's a commercial proposal with subject: "Kommerzielle Listung bei heise Download" according to their FAQ at https://www.heise.de/download/page/Haeufig-gestellte-Fragen-... )

Thanks for your advice!

May be there're some listings like this https://www.submitjuice.com/directories but for German-speaking? Or UGC-based websites about startups?

Sorry that my comment provides little to no value to the original question: being a native Spanish speaker from Latin America, in my 10 years in IT, I have been so far unable to find a site that comes close to any tech forum or something like Hacker News. I agree with franciscop that there should be a Spanish Hacker News. The problem is: what content would it be fed with, as quality content is scarce.

And why wouldn't that content be translated into English anyway?

I struggle to imagine such local-specific topics that they couldn't/wouldn't draw attention here at HN

quizá https://www.meneame.net ?

I think about not only HN but just about lists like this https://www.submitjuice.com/directories for not only English-speaking.

There are some in Spanish

https://elreferente.es/

https://startupslatam.com/

https://loogic.com/

https://startupchile.org/en/

https://latamlist.com/

Thanks a lot!

For french, there's a decent website similar to Product Hunt: https://lespepitestech.com/

It has a good following and a weekly e-mail list so it's probably worth it to post there as well

French: https://www.journalduhacker.net/

Today I discovered something in French on an English website. Thanks!

De rien !

"pas de commentaire" for all but two articles on the front page though, unfortunately :(

It appears to be invite-only (even though you can request an invite). I'm not sure about what drove them to do so, but that may be why there is not much activity on the website.

When it comes to startup, welcome to the jungle is probably the reference: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/media

Although it is a professional outlet, so it's not like you can expect to just publish there for free.

Yeah, thanks

Thanks. I'll try it)

European: https://starwatcher.io

Relevant only if you want to get some exposure to european investors though.

Also https://sifted.eu/

Thanks!

The Next Web: https://thenextweb.com/

For French PR: - https://www.maddyness.com/ - https://www.frenchweb.fr/ - https://www.presse-citron.net/ - https://www.journaldunet.com/ - https://www.rudebaguette.com/

I don't know of any significant Spanish website where you can feature your startup. The Spanish speaking community is mostly featured in English websites. Websites in Spanish are too fragmented.

For Portugal you might contact https://startupportugal.com/

This one is an official website for a government program, but I think it's for Portuguese companies https://portugaldigital.gov.pt/acelerar-a-transicao-digital-...

Thanks

Only half related to Op’s question but I’m thinking a lot about this right now as i just translated my iPhone app to 11 languages and released the update a week ago. I see NO additional downloads and I’m really curious to why. If anyone here has some experience or insight I’d really love to hear about it.

Not to state the obvious, but the null hypothesis would be: there's no demand.

English has a whole lot of market-share in the technical world - for better or for worse.

What does the app do? If it's for techies/power users ... all of my desktops and mobile devices have the OS set to English. I simply don't care to see another "creative" translation in my menus.

I think my 70+ mother has her phone set to Romanian. My father... don't think so.

What marketing have you done for this effort? Why would people who speak those languages be aware of your app?

You should do some ASO and content marketing (reviews and etc) for each new language audience.

This reminds me I've talked a dozen times with a friend whether we should start a "Spanish Hacker News", right now the closest thing is small dev Slacks on a per-city basis.

May be you have some lists of Slack's city community?

Not really, haven't been there for few years, but there was one in each city. The most active one was the one in BCN though:

https://bcneng.org/

List of 63 Portuguese Startups:

https://www.seedtable.com/startups-portugal

Can I add my startup to that list?

Heads up, "Portuguese" you mean Portugal, Brazil, and/or Africa? Those audiences are completely different in size, ticket, and so on.

To be fair you could say that about all the languages listed by OP. Colonial/imperial histories and all that…

Yeah, I mean Brazil, Portugal and etc with Protuguese speaking audience. I think that if you do some SaaS or App firstly it's about language for users and not important about country.

For the Portuguese market you can try Pplware [1]

[1] https://pplware.sapo.pt/

There is no true player in Brazil, but I think an easy access to news outlet for tech if you use TabNews [1], a HackerNews clone made by a tech influencer where he uses as source for his newsletter.

edit* Just a heads up: the tech influencer behind it usually doesn't give sources when getting content from TabNews. So it may be a flop.

[1]: https://www.tabnews.com.br/

Expanding from OPs question, but how about a Chinese website along same lines?

Oh, if you have, please, share it)

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