Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard

Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard by alixanderwang on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:36PM (#34417522)

ProductHunt is very gamified. You have to jump through their hoops to do well, reach out to "hunters" 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.

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Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard by danielxli on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:16PM (#34418233)

Interesting stats on HN vs. Reddit vs. PH!

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Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard by paulgb on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:59PM (#34419007)

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?

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Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard by alixanderwang on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:15PM (#34419283)

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 gotten VC funding, built a team, put out a successful/popular open-source project, etc etc. 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.

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Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard by danielxli on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:07PM (#34419145)

Yeah! would love to hear if there are any of these

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Re:Show HN: Product Hunt Launch Dashboard by ayewo on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @04:56AM (#34425040)

I think comparing up votes is not very useful to determine with community had the most impact on your business, but one metric that is common to HN, PH and Reddit is traffic.

How much traffic did each of those communities drive to your site when you launched?

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