Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard
by stevekemp on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:20PM
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> 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.
Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard
by danielxli on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:14PM
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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
We're following 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)