Wayrse

The site is a unicode emoticon site.

I spent roughly $500 over the month to get the ball rolling. Since the initial investment the site has been growing on its own.

I started by donating small amounts to twitch.tv streamers to let the viewers know about the site. I would carefully pick the channels that would give me the most exposure.

Example: If a streamer would display the top donator on their stream I would ensure my donation would last at least a few hours. I would make my donator name be the url of the website. That way 10-20k viewers would constantly see my url while watching the streamer.

Haha yeah that's the one.

That was one of the first sub Reddits that helped funnel a little bit of traffic to the site.

1. Boredom.
2. I would love it if some other developers with even larger sites would do one of these. I'm always really interested in methods that people use to promote their site, and ways they come up with ideas.

The problem is they never want to give away their secrets.

Unfortunately not yet :-P

I was simply providing a resource for those sub reddits, I don't see any harm in that.