The Quest for Webapp Publicity - Now What?
mechanical_fish: I truly feel that 9 out of 10 'hobby investors' seeing the site would be very interested.The problem may be that every "hobby investor" is using some site already. There are communities on those other sites, some of them very old indeed, and those communities may be pretty sticky.Generic advice:Stop talking to bloggers, sites, writers. Those people are useless by themselves, as you have now discovered. PR can bring people in, but it can't make them stick.Talk to some hobby investors. Find some online forum full of them and beg some of them to come and give you some feedback.What site all those folks using now? What do they hate about that site, and can you fix it on yours?I was going to suggest that you build something that would draw people in, like a fantasy-trading game... but a quick Google convinces me that the market for that particular idea may be totally saturated.