100% agree with you. I recently sort of "launched". Product is still in development but I wanted to start getting the word out. I posted on ProductHunt, shared on Facebook and was waiting to blow up... nothing happened.

I got more visitors from briefly mentioning my site on a comment here on HN than from ads and PH.

Anyway, after a week of sulking that I wasn't the next Facebook overnight I buckled down and continued working with more long term vision. Growing a userbase takes time, 99% of the time.