VCs are in a different business with a different model. VC is always great for the VC, not always so much for the founder. So this is a great alternative

yeah agree. there will always be big need for VC capital to fund big billion dollar ideas.

we're focused more on helping folks that want to bootstrap a $5-10m business and don't want to give up equity.

Thanks for commenting by the way!

Awesome and of course! Good luck with everything

We might launch a free version at some point. There's just so much that work that goes into retrieving requests (especially at our current scale), that we really need to charge for it in short run in order to get to the long run––if that makes sense. We're a small indie team

Thanks!

Cision is one of those behemoths that doesn't care too much about UI or UX, or improving their product quickly for that matter.

Used Cision in the past and hated it, figured there was a better way to build something for this use-case.

Working on a lot of data science opportunities here + integrating other web services like gmail to 10x the efficiency of the PR outreach process.

Yeah, you can actually search through our entire database for free on our homepage (we've just redacted premium data like emails and phone numbers).

For 'fish' we have almost 17k results. A lot of media outlets related to fish like Fishipedia.

For 'fishing travel' there are results from Voyages de Peche (which I'm pretty sure is literally "fishing trips" in French), who writes about 'fish' and 'travel'.

We have their writer Julien's name, email, and phone number here.

Thanks for commenting! We've been working on this for ~3 months, and we've exclusively invested all our engineering resources into this for the past 6-7 weeks

We launched Press Hunt 1.0 in late March, so we've been validating etc. since then

Yes! Anyone can use the trial search on our homepage for free to see if they're in the database and how they're categorized.

If you're not in there and want to be added, just let me know. If you're in there and don't want to be, just leave a message in the live chat of our site. Same goes if you'd like to update your tags!

Hey everyone!

From launching our own blog we’ve discovered just how much a PITA it is to maintain it—let alone actively grow it.

Blogs are great growth mechanisms for products (SEO, targeted traffic, branding, etc.), but they also require a lot of love & attention. Beyond writing the blog in the first place, you also have to get it in front of the right people.

We heard all about this problem when we launched Scribble (an on demand blog writing subscription for startups), and thought we had the right background to address it.

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Exclamation is for those who have enough time to write a great blog post, but not enough to share it everywhere they should. Your blog should help your product grow, not suck time away from working on it.

Exclamation is really exciting when it’s combined with Scribble: essentially with these two you can automate both the writing of your blog and the promotion of it. You can just sit back, relax, and leave your entire blog on autopilot. That way you can focus on what actually matters: product & users.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this! We’ll be around all day to answer questions.

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