Instaaa

Hey everyone 👋 Like many of you, I build a lot of different products and usually follow a pretty standard process when doing so. One part of that process is marketing/promotion (something I'm terrible at doing and find it saps a lot of my energy and time). I've always wanted a one-step solution: Something that will do the tedious work for me whilst I spend my time shipping. I discovered a variety of automated sites and bots, however many of them had ridiculous price tags or resulted in a lot of unnecessary spam. After the launch of my most recent project, I decided to spend a weekend creating something myself. Instaaa.com is a mass marketing tool/service which will promote your startup on up to 125 directories with a single click. Submissions are manual (handled by me and a small group of people I hired from reddit for the next two months). Submitting your startup is an easy process and pricing begins at just $39. The entire submission process is public and can be tracked step-by-step at www.instaaa.com/status. I wanted to create something that felt safe and transparent, whilst being a tool I would personally use. Instaaa meets that criteria and has proved successful with multiple test startups over the course of a week. I'm online all day to answer any questions or enquiries you may have regarding Instaaa. You can also reach out to me on Twitter, @ryanheybourn. P.S. I'm currently looking for a job. I can build websites and make fuego coffee. Currently @bidhype, previously www.startupbutton.com and www.foundler.com. Holler here or tweet me!

My general experience with these sort of tools is that you're often better off putting in the time to create personalised submissions for the most important sites to you, and I know I've seen a lot of feedback from journalists in the past saying not to use similar tools to submit to them. I thought there was a discussion-worthy comment on your reddit post earlier today, which basically said that there's no benefit to a tool like this, as it runs the risk of a Google penalty for en masse submission to low-quality directories that create shady back-links... and basically that this is not a risk anyone should be taking with their business. I thought that was a pretty reasonable point to raise - any response? I was disappointed to see you deleted your reddit post after it was brought up.

Did anyone actually check the directories this site has listed? Some aren't directories (like appmit.com) some aren't active sites (like bestvendor.com) and others could not be filled out with the information requested (like capterra.com).

It might be cool to have an a la carte option, so users can pick a subset of related sites. Then set the price per quantity. Or add a checkbox per site to exclude.

Great idea and one that hasn't yet been properly addressed to help promoters. Unfortunately, you're over-promising in your description and tag line since this is not an automated, single click tool, but a manual service which requires hands-on labor to perform. Yes, you do explain that later on in your content, but I'm sure many marketers, at first glance are mislead about your offer.