I'm Elif, Co-founder and CEO of BeforeSunset AI. We became the product of the day, week, month. AMA
Elif Duran
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Hello everyone! We launched BeforeSunset AI (https://www.beforesunset.ai/) in June and we became the product of the day, week, and month! π
We have 1777 upvotes and 422 comments currently, our number of upvotes and comments continued to increase after the launch π
Thank you to all the product hunters who support us. We gained a lot of momentum after the launch and created a great power user base β¨
We are happy to answer all of your questions. I and our growth lead Nur will answer all of them on 11th August.
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Hricha Shandily@hricha_s
Congratulations on the product and the successful launch Elif, always heartwarming to see stories like this. :)
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Congrats! How did you promote your product outside of Product Hunt?
@olearningcurve Curious too! BTW, cool product and notified! Mine is powered by openAI, and you are more than welcomed to leave your support:)
@olearningcurve Thank you, Luke! Actually, we had ongoing marketing efforts. We announced our launch with a press release and on all our social media platforms.
Launching soon!
@zekiye_nur_kesici What was your form of press release and how did you draw attention to it?
@olearningcurve @zekiye_nur_kesici did you have a dedicated person or team for Marketing, I am a co-founder, there is just 2 of us at the moment so wondering do I try to market myself or get some help!
Congratulations, I'm glad to hear that. It's always nice to see a colleague in the profession have such success. Tell me more about the launch process, I'll be happy to know.
@italo_costa Thank you, Italo! We planned our launch assets two months ahead of time. We put a lot of effort into our videos and content. We made a concerted effort to make them stand out by producing everything in a way that reflects our brand and draws attention to the homepage. We reached out to a lot of product hunters as a team. We announced our launch via social media. We used a press release to announce the launch of our product. These are things to came to my mind, you can ask your questions if there are any. π
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Launching soon!
Congratulations, Elif, on the remarkable achievement of becoming Product of the Day, Week, and Month! π
How do you plan to sustain this momentum while continuously enhancing your product? Looking forward to your AMA and learning from your experiences!
@mani_abod Thank you, Abdul! Apart from our ongoing marketing activities, we are conducting advertising activities in order to maintain the momentum we have achieved. We're trying different marketing channels.
Why sometimes products with significantly lower upvote/comment count overtake other products?
@alex_chepovoi While I can't be 100% sure, I do know that upvote values have to do with the profile. In Product Hunt, the upvote value of an active account, the number of followers, the number of streaks, and an account with more points are different from the upvote value of a newly opened account.
@alex_chepovoi I wanna know it as well.
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Well done! I'm curious: How did you spread out your outreach to get upvotes? Did you ask as many people as early as possible or did you ask smaller batches throughout the day?
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Congrats! Any tips & tricks you can share with us?
@sophiko_jeiranashvili Teamwork and collaboration is essential for a great product hunt launch. Small competitions can be organized to engage and motivate your team.
Congratulations Elif, this is such a wonderful achievement!
Before-Sunset AI's launch journey is so inspiring, and there's so much to learn from your achievement. Thanks for sharing your journey!
SayData is launching in a week, on the 17th of Aug and I would be really grateful if you could provide any advice on outreach strategies to optimise support before our launch?
Do check out our launch page as well: https://www.producthunt.com/prod....
Thanks so much for your support Elif!
@aditi_rao1 cool product and notified! Mine is powered by openAI, and you are more than welcomed to leave your support:)
@aditi_rao1 Thank you, Aditi! Good luck with your launch!
@goff_jira We're using Posthog to track user source. It is a great tool for detailed analytics.
Could you share a bit about the most exciting challenge you overcame while developing BeforeSunset AI?
Keep up the amazing work! π
We're looking to be #1 in October. Do share some tips.
Hi Elif, That's awesome! Congrats!
My question: What are your plans for the future of your product?
Congratulations @elifduran! Can you please share one or two most significant strategies that really worked well for you?
@elifduran @rahul_aluri cool product and notified! Mine is powered by openAI, and you are more than welcomed to leave your support:)
@elifduran @rahul_aluri Time-blocking strategy for the product hunt launch process. We tried time-blocking for outreach and it both motivated us as a team and increased our efficiency.
@rahul_aluri Thanks Rahul, likewise. Looking forward to your feedbacks after you try it out:)
My congrats!
My big congrats!
Excellent results, congrats! π¦
Congrats! π
How did you prepare your producthunt launch? What do you recommend are the most important parts when launching?
@gican_petrescu I believe it is critical to interact with the product hunt community. If you want to benefit from the community, you should engage with the community. Reaching out to product hunters to ask for their feedback and support, well-prepared launch assets, and teamwork are crucial in a successful product launch.
Congrats! :) What's your main acquisition channel after the launch? Thanks!
@steve_lourdessamy The main channel is the hype that we created, people are coming directly mostly. We are focusing on SEO and social media activities and currently doing some trial influencer marketing to understand which channel is the best for us.
Great product! I'm going to try using it that's all =)