# Marketing Note

**Category:** [open forum](https://openhealthhub.org/c/open-forum/9)
**Created:** 2018-04-30 03:35 UTC
**Views:** 1161
**Replies:** 2
**URL:** https://openhealthhub.org/t/marketing-note/1553

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## Post #1 by @MatthewVita

Hi All,

After _much_ experimentation, our group at the OpenEMR project found that posting project press releases/blogs on [HackerNews](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News) on Saturday evenings (US - PDT) is best.

Because of the moderately low traffic, it's possible to gain some interest (represented by upvotes) on an otherwise busy site/community. We were able to get the word out about our new software version, had a flurry of positive/useful comments (some directly from clinicians), and recruited a little over a half-dozen volunteers (healthcare-focused programmers mainly).

I highly recommend this approach (HN on Sat. evening, PDT) to the other projects here. Marketing is _super_ critical for user-facing software and it's important to spend time on it.

PS: Let me know if you'd like to work together (here on OpenHealthHub/public Github) on integrating your healthcare IT tool with OpenEMR! We are very cross-community focused (as evidenced by multiple dependencies on other important open source projects that we work with).

-Matthew

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## Post #2 by @pacharanero

Hi @MatthewVita - when we were working on NHoS/NHSbuntu we got mentioned in Hacker News as well and I would agree it was the single biggest boost to our international visibility.

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## Post #3 by @MatthewVita

That's awesome! You just never who will pop up in the comments there (so many interesting people from all sorts of backgrounds there).

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