Tips for a successful Product Hunt launch?
Dmitry Gaiduk
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Hey Makers! We've created a great product and going to launch it on Product Hunt next week. I'm a little bit nervous because it's our first time :) I'll appreciate your advice on the successful launch!
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zOxta@zoxta
Luck plays a factor here. If for example a couple of pretty famous products launch on the same day you do, you will be competing with them directly, and your chance in becoming one of the top 5 products of the day could be very slim. So I would recommend launching on a day that is not known as "best weekday to launch".
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@abadesi I've only just found this site and I've just gone through a Kickstarter for my screen print machine / product 'The Imprinter'. I got the money but it was hard work getting it there. I realise that marketing and PR people can only work with what you give them but I really got very little traction from outside services even when they were saying they posted to 20k people on twitter or whatever ... I agree with the sentiments here, working with an influencer if possible but also bringing your own crowd to the party. I did $21k with a Database of 500 and 2000 on FB ... 'Just enough' Really you need double this to start plus an influencer or 2 ...
@shraddhasrivastava posted a blog about launching here a couple of days ago. We're in a similar point of pre-launch and it was really useful. Here's a link in case you missed it. https://browsee.io/blog/learning... Good luck for your launch!