[HN Gopher] Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard
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Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard
Author : danielxli
Score : 37 points
Date : 2023-01-17 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| tofuahdude wrote:
| I truly loath product hunt in its current state.
|
| It's just a game of who can get the most friends/bots to vote.
|
| Further, it is only relevant to those present in the echo
| chamber.
| Existenceblinks wrote:
| I think an event like 'products expo' behaves more authentic.
| Walk around, talk to people. This sucks when it comes to
| online.
| danielxli wrote:
| It's a shame since it's such a great concept though. Lots of
| companies need a place to launch!
| dabeeeenster wrote:
| Wholeheartedly agree. It's the most awful bay area echo chamber
| nonsense.
|
| Sorry for the negativity!
| danielxli wrote:
| We launched our product on Product Hunt today and thought it
| would be fun to share all of the metrics we're tracking
| associated with our launch.
|
| We followed several of the Product Hunt launch checklists
| including...
|
| * https://heyday.xyz/blog/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt/
|
| * https://www.producthunt.com/launch
|
| Learnings so far
|
| * It's REALLY important to stack a bunch of upvotes right at
| midnight PST. We fell behind in the first hour, and it's quite
| tough to get back in the top 10 afterwards. Make more friends in
| Europe and Asia!
|
| * Launching on PH is fun, but not a lot of discovery seems to
| actually happen on the site. It seems like the winners from the
| initial batch of upvotes at ~2am PT generally stay the winners
| throughout the day
|
| * Some of the "how to launch" articles suggest that only getting
| "seasoned" accounts to upvote and comment is important. On the
| contrary, seems like a lot of the top 3 traffic is driven by
| fairly low quality interactions (not many comments and low
| quality comments)
| stevekemp wrote:
| > It's REALLY important to stack a bunch of upvotes right at
| midnight PST
|
| Do you mean imply fake votes? Paid votes? Powerful friends?
|
| It was alleged in the past that producthunt was gamed to such
| an extent that it wasn't worth using, and your commentary
| reminds me of that.
| danielxli wrote:
| I was thinking legitimate votes (get 100 of your friends to
| stay up until midnight or get 100 friends in Asia to upvote
| at launch time).
|
| But certainly seems like there are a lot of people to help
| round up illegitimate votes as well. We had maybe ~5 people
| message us telling us we didn't get enough organic votes and
| they could guarantee us more votes to get us to spot #1-5
| synu wrote:
| If you search Google for paid votes on Product Hunt, there are
| a ton of companies that offer what you're looking for.
| alixanderwang wrote:
| ProductHunt is very gamified. You have to jump through their
| hoops to do well, reach out to "hunters" (these guys will put
| this badge on their twitter/linkedin) to post for you to get the
| boost from their following, schedule to launch at the perfect
| time, spam people to upvote you. People buy bots, PH doesn't care
| like HN does about voting rings or authenticity.
|
| We launched D2 to 629 upvotes on HN
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704254), and 1.3k on
| Reddit. I didn't want to fuck with all that ProductHunt checklist
| stuff and threw it on there and got 9
| (https://www.producthunt.com/products/d2).
|
| In hindsight it was probably worth playing their game. It does
| get a lot of traffic. I just never visit the page because I know
| how gamified it is.
| danielxli wrote:
| Interesting stats on HN vs. Reddit vs. PH!
| paulgb wrote:
| I'm curious if there are any "success stories" out there --
| anyone who played the game and felt it made a material
| difference to their success?
| alixanderwang wrote:
| oh i actually did play it a few years back when I launched
| Terrastruct (company behind D2). It was just a solo-effort
| bare bones project at the time, but I reached out to a hunter
| and all that. Got 112 upvotes
| (https://www.producthunt.com/products/terrastruct), and got a
| few paid subscriptions from it.
|
| It was a material morale boost at a time when I didn't know
| if anyone would find it worth paying for. We've since grown a
| lot. In total it was only like $20/mo, but felt like a big
| success to me at the time.
|
| I guess I A/B tested playing the game vs not playing the
| game, as much as one can.
| danielxli wrote:
| Yeah! would love to hear if there are any of these
| yawnxyz wrote:
| that's a great way to show off your use case with Plus Docs! This
| actually makes me want to check out and sign up for Plus more
| than the other show HN link.
| danielxli wrote:
| Thank you! The best way to understand it is really just to see
| it in action :)
| Existenceblinks wrote:
| I rather want some kind of marketplace that's more like solutions
| <-> problems matching, not maker "community". For example,
| identifying business problems is hard, the platform should solve
| "Could these companies' problems be solved by my solutions"
| problem. Name it realbusinessproblems.com
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