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Re:How our 24 hour mini project got to #1 on Product Hunt by downandout on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:17PM (#9484111)
How do you even get listed on Product Hunt if you a) aren't an invited member and b) you don't get lucky like these guys did and have someone "stumble" across your page and submit it? The latter has essentially no chance of happening for most people, and the former is slightly more likely but still out of reach for most people. From what I can tell the site doesn't even offer a way to contact people that have submitted products like yours that might be interested in submitting on your behalf.
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Re:How our 24 hour mini project got to #1 on Product Hunt by glenngillen on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:24PM (#9484129)
ProductHunt specifics aside, this general approach is one part of what separates successful products from ones nobody ever hears about. It's easy to write it off as "get lucky", and the founder replied elsewhere that this wasn't planned. But they have another existing product they're trying to build an audience for so suspect they've invested a fair amount of time building up their Twitter following, trying to get in front of specific people, working out ways to get press/blog/social coverage.

So I doubt it's pure coincidence that one of their Twitter followers was also a ProductHunt member.

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Re:How our 24 hour mini project got to #1 on Product Hunt by duellsy on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:20PM (#9484116)
It's reasonably easy to approach people on the site and ask for an invite. Also, we posted the site to our social media accounts, and were fortunate that one of them posted us on Product Hunt, it wasn't planned that way, we were going to list ourselves later in the week when we had more content
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Re:How our 24 hour mini project got to #1 on Product Hunt by downandout on Sunday May 03, 2015 @11:22PM (#9484123)
I wasn't criticizing you for getting lucky and someone else posting it for you, and kudos for what you were able to accomplish. I was just saying that PH appears to be a tough nut to crack for anyone not well connected/known in SV. It's not truly a list of the best products; it's a list of the best products that well-connected SV people have created or like.
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