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Where to promote a side project for free
A practical starting plan for sharing a side project with relevant people, including a free billboard on The Square.
Start with the people your project helps. A useful introduction to a relevant audience is more valuable than repeatedly dropping the same link everywhere.
Choose a relevant place
- Your own network: explain what you built and ask for specific feedback.
- A specialist community: read its promotion rules, contribute and use its designated sharing thread.
- Your project’s website: give visitors a working example and a clear next step.
- The Square: publish one active free billboard for 24 hours and share its public link.
Write a useful introduction
Say who it helps, what it does and what visitors can try. For example: “A weekly meal planner for busy parents. Build your first shopping list in minutes.” Treat this as a writing example, not a claim about an actual advertiser.
Measure what happens
Use a campaign-tagged destination link and your website analytics to compare visits and meaningful actions. A click is not a sale. Improve the message based on what visitors actually do.
Follow up thoughtfully
Answer questions and share a useful update when the project changes. Avoid repeated unsolicited promotion. On The Square, renew an expired placement manually if you want another run.