Ask HN: How do you promote yourself?

1. Do cool things.

2. Tell people about them.

There's a pretty big industry surrounding how to promote yourself effectively, but ultimately, most of those things are secondary concerns. You shouldn't ignore marketing advice - there's often useful insights on what appears impressive to other people - but you'll always get more bang for the buck by actually doing things that are impressive to people rather than trying to make what you're doing appear impressive to others. Actions speak louder than words.

Write / join an open source project.

In your case I would try and participate in a lot of online communities, then have a link to your twitter and blog for all posts. Make sure you provide quality content for your blog and twitter.Some times when you make a good comment on a post people will check you out if you have a link for them to follow.

That should help out a bit.

Since you are comfortable interacting with a small batch of people, attending barcamps/unconferences is a good way to network and promote yourself. If you live in an area with a startup scene there are probably multiple such events a week.